Re: sscanf and 0x80000000

From:

Christopher Pisz <nospam@notanaddress.com>

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comp.lang.c++

Date:

Fri, 31 Oct 2014 18:07:08 -0500

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On 10/31/2014 5:48 PM, Geoff wrote:

On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 17:34:14 -0500, Christopher Pisz
<nospam@notanaddress.com> wrote:

On 10/31/2014 4:54 PM, Melzzzzz wrote:

On Fri, 31 Oct 2014 22:43:23 +0100
Marcel Mueller <news.5.maazl@spamgourmet.org> wrote:

I recently had a problem with a GPU assembler. The program is mainly
C++11, but the parsing of expression components is done with sscanf.
This causes problems because sscanf cannot read the integer constant
"0x80000000". %i returns 0x7fffffff and %u cannot read hex numbers. I
could bet that this has been working with %i for many years.

I just tested with gcc 4.8.2 for OS/2 - works with %i.
But with gcc 4.8.2 Linux (Mint 17) the result is the bitwise not.

#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{ int i;
     sscanf("0x80000000", "%i", &i);
     printf("%x", i);
     return 0;
}

The goal is to read an unsigned number in all common formats
(decimal, binary, octal, hex) from a string. The string does not
necessarily end after the number. I did not find format specifier
that does the job.

Marcel

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{ long long i;
     sscanf("0x80000000","%lli",&i);
     printf("%llx\n", i);
     return 0;
}

Problem is that 32 bit int is not long enough, just use long long
and all set...

or use C++ and drop the C style

#include <iostream>

int main()
{
     long long i = 0x80000000;
     std::cout << std::hex << i << std::endl;

     return 0;
}

or if you will need the string later

#include <iostream>
#include <sstream>

int main()
{
     long long i = 0x80000000;
     std::ostringstream os;

     os << std::hex << i;
     std::cout << os.str() << std::endl;

     return 0;
}

or at least #include <cstdlib> which has been for quite a long time now...

To be equivalent to the C code it needs to be

std::cout << "0x" << std::hex << i << std::endl;

Looks like he might want to go the other way too. If that is the case
use istringstream and operator >>

Just Google c++ streams in general. Much prettier than scanf and printf.
I've found doing format specifiers inside of string literals is just
plain error prone.

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