<div dir="ltr"><div>To get a nice value for 'setting' you should cast to be 32 bit before multiplying. Like:</div>ms = (uint32_t) setting *1000<div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 23 September 2016 at 15:34, Volker Kuhlmann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:list0570@paradise.net.nz" target="_blank">list0570@paradise.net.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">This is for AVR, but should hold for any 8-bit job. Spot the problems:<br>
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static const uint16_t setting = 15*60;<br>
class values {<br>
uint8_t a, b, c;<br>
uint32_t d;<br>
uint8_t e;<br>
uint16_t f;<br>
};<br>
static const values defaults {<br>
50, 1, 10, 0xFFB070, 5, 0x03FF<br>
};<br>
void func() {<br>
unsigned long ms;<br>
ms = setting * 1000;<br>
...<br>
}<br>
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