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Math Issue

Posted by DerekG

on Mar 05 2012 18:02 PM

Hi,

During development I found that I was subtracting two integer type variables and putting the result in a long type, my experience is the compiler will either complain or just cast it. I found that if I took the result and defined it as an int it would work, BUT if I typecast the result from int to long to be passed to the long version, it would break without saying there was an Error or Warning (or Info).

Is this the expected bahaviior? Why does CCS not flag it?

The reality is that the motor control loop i am development ends up with wrong result (the difference value) and does not work.

See attached

Posted by George Mock

on Mar 06 2012 09:52 AM

Guru51290 points

I suggest you read this app note. It describes the proper way to perform a 16x16 to 32 multiply. That may not be the exact problem you have. But, at a conceptual level, I think it is close enough.

Thanks and regards,

-George

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Posted by DerekG

on Mar 20 2012 19:21 PM

Intellectual985 points

George,

I read the Application Report SPRA683 and didn't see a reason for my problems, one of the situations I've had was subtracting one int from another and assigning the result to a long the compiler didn't report an error, warning or info about the operation and failed to pass the result to the variable. But typecasting the int to a long didn't solve the problem.

Currently I've had a partial failure of the sprintf function in the standard string library, formatting an integer to string using this function is returning a string that doesn't represent the decimal value passed to it. We are getting letters and unprintable characters, however in another function in the same project and the same module doing almost the same thing is working correctly.

Derek

Posted by Archaeologist

on Mar 21 2012 09:00 AM

Mastermind40550 points

Are you perhaps using MSP compiler version 4.0.1?

Posted by Archaeologist

on Mar 21 2012 09:36 AM

Mastermind40550 points

I'm having trouble picturing the failure scenario for subtraction. Could you post a compilable test case where the compiler does not behave as you want it to?