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Originally Posted by Avenger625
I understood both of the codes - the Bug.c and the next one. I also understood, why such outputs are shown. But i did not get the link between the problem (Integer Overflow Bug) and the Challenge. I mean is "Challenge" a solution to the Bug.....the two codes are quite different in purpose, you see Bug.c adds and stores a no. into an integer variable that causes an overflow.
I simply could not link the 2 parts of the tutorial. Please, explain.....

And did we specifically use "100"????

The challenge was related to the tutorial , because we needed to overflow the Unsigned int (data type) in C , If you have been Coding in C , You must know that unsigned int starts from 0 , and if -1 is provided it overflows to the highest value it can hold. I hope this makes it clear!

lionaneesh Invasive contributor
18Jun2011,12:18
	Quote: Originally Posted by Avenger625 I understood both of the codes - the Bug.c and the next one. I also understood, why such outputs are shown. But i did not get the link between the problem (Integer Overflow Bug) and the Challenge. I mean is "Challenge" a solution to the Bug.....the two codes are quite different in purpose, you see Bug.c adds and stores a no. into an integer variable that causes an overflow. I simply could not link the 2 parts of the tutorial. Please, explain..... And did we specifically use "100"???? The challenge was related to the tutorial , because we needed to overflow the Unsigned int (data type) in C , If you have been Coding in C , You must know that unsigned int starts from 0 , and if -1 is provided it overflows to the highest value it can hold. I hope this makes it clear!