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Subject: Re:  Long integers
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Date: Wed, 16-Sep-87 08:28:05 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 16 08:28:05 1987
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In article <9266@brl-adm.ARPA> moss@BRL.ARPA (Gary S. Moss (SLCBR-VL-V)) writes:
>	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

From where did you get this piece of information? Char is always widened to
int, and float to double, but never int to long.

Stefan Vorkoetter
University of Waterloo
Symbolic Computation Group