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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben.use...@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File
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Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nos...@hotmail.com> writes:

> On Nov 9, 1:24 pm, Eric Sosman <esos...@comcast-dot-net.invalid>
> wrote:
>> On 11/9/2012 2:09 AM, felix wrote:
<snip>
>> > //-- Code starts here : --
>>
>> > static size_t LogSize = 1048576;
>>
>>      Ah. This is obviously some strange usage of "10 MB" that
>> I hadn't previously been aware of.
>>
>> > It is strange that the condition got satisfied when results.st_size
>> > = 2589116.
>>
>>      Not all *that* strange ...
>
> this is why you don't put numbers like that in your code
>
> #define K 1024
> #define M (K * K)
> #define LOG_SIZE (10 * M)

I'd put an 'L' suffix on the 1024 since 10 * M is outside the minimum
range or plain int arithmetic.

-- 
Ben.