Craig Evans / Mbed 2 deprecated 1620_Lab2_Task7

Example solution

Dependencies:   mbed

main.cpp

Committer:
eencae
Date:
2017-02-02
Revision:
0:01dd860642c5

File content as of revision 0:01dd860642c5:

/* ELEC1620 Lab 2 Task 7

Overflow

(c) Dr Craig A. Evans, Feb 2017

*/

#include "mbed.h"

int main()
{
    // use the 'signed' keyword when declaring the variable
    signed char c = 127;
    printf("c has a value of %d\n",c);

    printf("We'll now incrememt it by 1\n");
    c++; // increment operator, could also do c = c + 1;

    printf("Now it has a value of %d\n",c);
    printf("Wow! This is overflow in action!\n");
    printf("The number has gone out of the range of an 8-bit value.\n");

}