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From: wirzeniu@cs.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Style guides and portability
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Date: 14 Jan 91 21:31:04 GMT
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In article <1991Jan13.182655.17672@athena.mit.edu> scs@adam.mit.edu writes:
>P.S. The answer to "How do you print something declared with
>`int32 bigint;' ?" is that you have to abandon printf in favor of
>something you define, like "print32".  I find this awkward, and

Is there any problem in using 

	printf("%ld", (long) bigint)

other than that it's clumsy?

Lars Wirzenius    wirzeniu@cs.helsinki.fi    wirzenius@cc.helsinki.fi