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From: dillon@POSTGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Examine and ExNext return codes
Message-ID: <8901060429.AA23468@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 6 Jan 89 04:29:50 GMT
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:In article <1088@ardent.UUCP> rap@ardent.UUCP (Rob Peck) writes:
:$Actually the "l' (small L) prepending that I had done shows my early
:$involvement with the Amiga OS, in that the printf built into the ROM
:$(or WCS), and accessible by linking in amiga.lib first, requires
:$all parameters to be longs.
:
:But the tools you were using (Greenhills) had ints the same size as
:longs anyway (32 bit), so wasn't the l unnecessary?

	Right, if integers are 32 bits (sizeof(int) == 4), then the l
does not matter at all.  (scanf() uses a different character and in that
case it *is* needed).  However, if you intend your source to compile on
either type of compiler you had better get those l's straight!

	I found this out the hard way one day porting a small use-only-stdio
program to an IBM-PC.  Except for the cooked/raw I/O problem, my incorrect use
or non-use of 'l' in the printfs made for some fun debugging sessions!

						-Matt