%p and MSC
Kevin D. Quitt
kdq at demott.COM
Sat Aug 4 02:38:53 AEST 1990
%p represents a bug in Microsoft's documentation. As I had quoted
it earlier, their documentation does indicate that they are not ANSI
compliant; testing, however, has indicated that MSC *is* ANSI compliant
for those models where data and code have the same size pointer (S,L,H).
Those models with mixed addressing modes (C,M) cause a problem because
it is impossible for printf to differentiate between code and data
pointers.
Making the best of a bad situation, you can either coerce your
pointers, or use %lp for long pointers and %Np for short. After all, if
you're really going for compatibility, are you going to use a mixed
model? Also, it seems to me that a program that tries to do anything
significant with %p is probably not really very portable anyway.
(With both hands held up over my head, and making V's with my
fingers: "I am not a Microsoft apologist" ) 8-{)}
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