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From: johnb@srchtec.UUCP (John Baldwin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Novice MicroSoft C5.1 question
Message-ID: <171@srchtec.UUCP>
Date: 9 Aug 90 14:14:15 GMT
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In article <1906@tkou02.enet.dec.com> diamond@tkou02.enet.dec.com
(diamond@tkovoa) writes:
>
>Well, the last draft did define %P instead of %p, but that appears to be
>a typo.  Aside from the place where it's defined, they refer to it as %p.

Okay, it can happen to the best of us (and I am NOT the best of us :) :) :)).
I missed the fact that they *DID* put the pointer-format representation
into the ANSI printf().  In fact, Michael Meissner at OSF (the guy who got
X3J11 to include '%p') was kind enough to point this out.

THIS solves a lot of problems for portability, and I for one am very glad
I was wrong (I've been grumbling all this time about not being able to
portably print pointers).
    [p'p'p'-- say THAT 5 times fast!]

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