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From: moss@BRL.ARPA (Gary S. Moss (SLCBR-VL-V))
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re:  Long integers
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Date: Mon, 14-Sep-87 10:23:21 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 14 10:23:21 1987
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George,
	The format %ld is wrong when using the PRINTF family of functions.
The reason for this is that integer arguments are *always* widened to LONG
when passed in to a function, so the %d format is meant for LONGS.  This
is also true for %f.  I am not certain, but pretty sure that I have gotten
wrong behavior when using %ld in this context on certain hardware.

	This is contrary to the SCANF family where you *need* the %ld because
you are placing the result in an address whose type is not known to the
function.

~moss