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From: aglew@ccvaxa.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C machine
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Date: 21 Jan 88 00:12:00 GMT
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>[gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA]
>If you don't like using a type other than a known basic type, you can of
>course coerce the ptrdiff_t into a long via a (long) cast, but seldom is
>this necessary or useful.  (It is necessary if you're going to printf()
>the value of a ptrdiff_t.)

I suppose that there is no equivalent to %p for pointers for
ptrdiff_t?