CIS3355: Business Data Structures
Fall, 2008
 

Bits/Bytes and ASCII Part 3
Answer a few questions about what the program did (10 points)

Very Simple Questions:

1. Remember the section of code:
   
   // Now, let's try and store an 'Illegal' value in location ch
   // I say illegal because we know that signed bytes can only take on the values:
   // -2⁷ through +2⁷ - 1, or -128 though +127
   // What happens if we try and store a number outside of that range?
      ch = 211;
   
   And Remember the output?
   
   The outcome is ^u, decimal -45
   
   Why is that? (Explain in detail for full credit)
    
2. Even when we entered a 'legal' value:
   
   // Now, if we were to store the value 211 at location ch2 (an unsigned character) it should be OK
   // since an unsigned character has the range 0 through 28 - 1 (0 through 255)
   // Let's try it
      ch2 = 211;
   
   We still got strange output:
   
   The outcome is ^u, decimal 211
   
   Why is that? (Explain in detail for full credit)

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