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- From: stanr@tiac.net (Stan Ryckman)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.std.c
- Subject: Re: Coding Standards are ignorant
- Date: 17 Mar 1996 01:32:48 GMT
- Organization: Amber & Sneakers Fan Club
- Message-ID: <4ifq40$i87@sundog.tiac.net>
- References: <4gum82$14v4@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> <MIB.96Mar15170902@gnu.ai.mit.edu> <wyraut5fqq.fsf@dns.bluesky.net> <MIB.96Mar16174948@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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- (Added comp.std.c; those folks may skip to my question at the end)
-
- In article <MIB.96Mar16174948@gnu.ai.mit.edu>,
- Michael I. Bushnell, p/BSG <mib@gnu.ai.mit.edu> wrote:
-
- [snip]
-
- [re Posix.2]
- >You can't use printf to print any manifest integer type of unknown
- >size, except for size_t. (And that one only because ANSI went and
- >added a special format code for size_t.)
-
- Can't you safely do this with casting to the (possibly unsigned) long
- type? e.g.,
- pid_t whatever;
- ...
- printf( "%lu\n", (unsigned long) whatever);
- A pain, but hardly a "can't".
-
- Oh, and what's that special ANSI format code for size_t? I can't find
- it in 4.9.6.1; was it added after printing or am I just blind?
-
- Cheers,
- Stan.
- --
- Stan Ryckman (stanr@tiac.net)
- (Apologies for non-responses or late responses to some posts;
- .newsrc was trashed and I'm trying to get it back to where it was.)
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