CS2931 - Fall 2003 - Some Common Errors in C

• The char 'x' is not a string "x".
• = is not = = ; & is not && etc.
• left association effects:
  a < b < c is meaningful, but not as the conjunction of inequalities
• & is required for scanf(); it and printf() expect string, not char arguments; both require: #conversions = #arguments
• avoid overflow when using INT_MAX eg use i < INT_MAX-j, NOT i + j < INT_MAX