Strange output

[jamonathin]

Hey all, I haven't done C in forever and i decided to do a sample problem out of my textbook. I recently got lcc-win32 as my compiler, and just started to use it today.

The problem is very simple - You have 2 yards. You have the lengths and widths of the yards and the houses on them, determine the leftover (grass area).
Now im probabily doing something wrong in my printf command, but i kept getting a HUGE number for a very small input. And to test it i put the printf result part at the top (where the areas should be 0), yet i still get some some HUGE number . . . wtf mayte?

c:

#include <stdio.h> int main () {         int lengthYard1 = 0, widthYard1 = 0, lengthHouse1 = 0, widthHouse1 = 0;         int lengthYard2 = 0, widthYard2 = 0, lengthHouse2 = 0, widthHouse2 = 0;         int areaYard1 = 0, areaYard2 = 0;         // Here's what I dont get.         printf ("The area of grass on Yard 1: %d",&areaYard1);         printf ("\nThe area of grass on Yard 2: %ld\n\n",&areaYard2);         //         // Getting length and widths of first yard         printf ("Enter Length of Yard1 and Width of Yard1: ");         scanf ("%d%d",&lengthYard1, &widthYard1);         printf ("\nEnter Length of House1 and Width of House1: ");         scanf ("%d%d", &lengthHouse1, &widthHouse1);         // Getting length and widths of second yard         printf ("\n\nEnter Length of Yard2 and Width of Yard2: ");         scanf ("%d%d",&lengthYard2, &widthYard2);         printf ("\nEnter Length of House2 and Width of House2: ");         scanf ("%d%d", &lengthHouse2, &widthHouse2);         // "The calculation"         areaYard1 = (lengthYard1 * widthYard1) - (lengthHouse1 * widthHouse1);         areaYard2 = (lengthYard2 * widthYard2) - (lengthHouse2 * widthHouse2);         // Same output as before         printf ("The area of grass on Yard 1: %d",&areaYard1);         printf ("\nThe area of grass on Yard 2: %d\n\n",&areaYard2);         return 0; }

Example Output wrote:

Yard1: 1245036
Yard2: 1245032

[md]

don't pass pointers; just pass the ints

[Tony]

yeah, &areaYard1 actually prints the address of the variable, not the value stored there. Notice how your yard1 and yard2 are 4 units appart. Incidently the space reserved for a single integer variable is 4 bytes

[jamonathin]

ooooo, lol thanks