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From: kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: %p and MSC
Message-ID: <444@demott.COM>
Date: 3 Aug 90 16:38:53 GMT
Reply-To: kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt)
Organization: DeMott Electronics Co., Van Nuys CA
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    %p represents a bug in Microsoft's documentation.  As I had quoted
it earlier, their documentation does indicate that they are not ANSI
compliant; testing, however, has indicated that MSC *is* ANSI compliant
for those models where data and code have the same size pointer (S,L,H). 
Those models with mixed addressing modes (C,M) cause a problem because
it is impossible for printf to differentiate between code and data
pointers.

    Making the best of a bad situation, you can either coerce your
pointers, or use %lp for long pointers and %Np for short.  After all, if
you're really going for compatibility, are you going to use a mixed
model? Also, it seems to me that a program that tries to do anything
significant with %p is probably not really very portable anyway. 


    (With both hands held up over my head, and making V's with my
fingers:  "I am not a Microsoft apologist" )  8-{)}

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