Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!cmcl2!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn
From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: shar
Keywords: printf word size null pointer
Message-ID: <7098@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 15 Jan 88 14:07:21 GMT
References: <965@ssc.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <965@ssc.UUCP> kent@ssc.UUCP (Kent) writes:
-Somebody elsewhere (in comp.lang.c, maybe) was annoyed about types 
-like time_t, which pretend to improve portability via data hiding, but 
-actually make a mess, since we need to know the underlying type 
-anyway. 

For printf purposes, so long as it's known to be an integral type,
simply always cast the argument to long and use %ld format.