How do I add an int in C?

#include <stdio.h> 
#include <limits.h> 
int process( FILE *f ) { 
    
	int a, b; 
	int total = 1;						//adding how many times "a" was larger than "b"
	
	/*  and now I want to add total++  every time 
		a number found that is greater than another
		Where do I need to add it? 
		So when I get output with eg 9 lines to show me in the
		end of the process the number 10 in a new line -cause the 
		start value of the int total is 1 and to save the number
		10 in a new file called out.txt */
    if ( f == 0 ) return 0; 
    if ( fscanf( f, "%d", &a ) != 1 ) return INT_MIN; 
    if ( (b= process( f )) == INT_MIN ) return a; 
    if ( a > b ) return printf( "%d > %d and total now is %d\n", a, b, total ), a; 
    return b; 
} 
int main( void ) { 
    FILE *fp= fopen( "xxx.txt", "r" ); 
    process( fp ); 
    fclose( fp ); 
	
    return 0; 
}