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While solving exercises from the K&R C book, I stumbled upon the exercise 2.1.
At first I got as UINT_MAX as -1, but then I used the %u placeholder, but now its giving me the same number as ULONG_MAX.
In the book in Appendix B, they say that UINT_MAX should be 65535 and ULONG_MAX should be 4294967295, but when running the exercise, its giving me for both UINT_MAX and ULONG_MAX as 4294967295.
Why is that?
First of all, the right way to print an
unsigned longis not%ubut%lu. Second, the standard says the minimum value ofUINT_MAXis 65535. It can be (and usually is) larger.