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Staale L. Hansen (staale@spacetec.no) wrote:
: In a loop reading data from disk I have a global counter of type
: "long long", which is incremented by the number of bytes read.
: The counter increases normally for a while, but suddenly it jumps
: to a gigantic number (~120E12).
: If I change the variable type to "long", or make it volatile, this
: does not happen.

: The code is too long to post here, but it is compiled with gcc 2.7.2.1
: on Solaris x86 (Pentium) 2.5, with no optimization

: Has anyone else seen this? Are there any known bugs with "long long"'s?

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One explanation could be:
some other part of you program writes incorrestly to a certain 
portion of memory. If you counter is of type long double,
it occupies this portion of memory and is thus changed,
while if your counter is of type long it does not occupy
this memory and thus is not changed. :-)

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