# HG changeset patch
# User Markus Bröker <mbroeker@largo.dyndns.tv>
# Date 1275945647 -7200
# Node ID 54a04f5f141d6ece524c845504567e5a5c769ac6
# Parent  b5ad49852adc8f59dc3e089ebcdf119d80cc421e
Adjusted to show side effects and their handling

When dealing with static buffers, successive calls point
to the same memory location and overwrite formers ones...

committer: Markus Bröker <mbroeker@largo.homelinux.org>

diff --git a/getbits.c b/getbits.c
--- a/getbits.c
+++ b/getbits.c
@@ -4,12 +4,12 @@
  *
  */
 #include <stdio.h>
-#include <limits.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
 #include <string.h>
 
-#define BITS 64
+#define BITS 8
 
-char *getbits (unsigned long long what)
+char *getbits (unsigned int what)
 {
     static char byte[BITS + 1];
 
@@ -29,16 +29,11 @@
 int main (void)
 {
     unsigned int i;
-    for (i = 1; i < 16; i++)
-        printf ("%s\n", getbits (i));
+    char *s = strdup (getbits (255));
 
-    printf ("%s\n", getbits (USHRT_MAX));
-    printf ("%s\n", getbits (UINT_MAX));
-    printf ("%s\n", getbits (ULONG_MAX));
-
-#ifdef ULLONG_MAX
-    printf ("%s\n", getbits (ULLONG_MAX));
-#endif
+    for (i = 240; i < 255; i++)
+        printf ("%s %s %s %s (%d)\n", s, s, s, getbits (i), i);
+    free (s);
 
     return 0;
 }