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From: blarson@skat.usc.edu (Bob Larson)
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Subject: ansi printf questions
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Date: 4 Feb 89 03:56:44 GMT
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While writing a portable vsprintf implemtation (to be submitted to
comp.sources.misc) I noticed a couple of oddities in the K&R 2
description of printf formats:

How does %i differ from %d?  Is this just for compatability with
scanf strings?

u, o, x, and X formats take an int and print it unsigned.  Shouldn't
they take an unsigned int?  Is there a difference on any known machine?

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