How to achieve a bigger value of counting in C?

[tom_hanks]

hi,

I have two counter in uC...8 bit

now i want to acheive a biggeer value of counting in C...

what is possible way to acheive the bigger value of counting for C & uC...


tom

 

[Anno]

counting in C...

what are these declared as ? int?
make it a long int .

 

[tom_hanks]

Re: counting in C...

i declare it as


volatile unsigned char ms_100_count;

 

[shabab]

Re: counting in C...

Define Array of Char as long as you want then make a function that increament in array

 

[dilraj.n]

Re: counting in C...

declare it as
unsigned long ms_100_count;

so u can count upto 0xFFFFFFFF

 

[booklog]

Re: counting in C...

If you want still bigger declare it as long long type, which is i think 8 bytes long