#define, what am I doing wrong?

[bsodmike]

Hiya,

I found something kinda strange today, Basically I'm doing something as follows:

#define WAIT_TIMEOUT 500

..

..

int8 timeOUT = WAIT_TIMEOUT;

Now in the rest of the code I count down to 0 with a 1us delay. I tried something like this:

printf("%d",timeOut);

and found that it was initialising the variable @ 244. Now is this because using '%d' is wrong or something else?

I found that defining WAIT_TIMEOUT in hex works like it should tho.

Cheers, Mike

[PCM programmer]

Declare a variable as int16 to hold a value of 500. An int8 can only
hold a value from 0 to 255. int16 can hold 0 to 65535.
(CCS integer declarations are unsigned values by default.)

Use "%lu" to display an int16 (or int32) variable in printf.

Note that the first character in "%lu" is a lowercase "L".

[bsodmike]

Thanks... I just woke up after a decent nap and first thing that hit me was "How could you store more than 255 in an 8-bit variable, muppet!"...
Cheers, Mike