Novice MicroSoft C5.1 question
John Baldwin
johnb at srchtec.UUCP
Fri Aug 10 00:14:15 AEST 1990
In article <1906 at tkou02.enet.dec.com> diamond at tkou02.enet.dec.com
(diamond at tkovoa) writes:
>
>Well, the last draft did define %P instead of %p, but that appears to be
>a typo. Aside from the place where it's defined, they refer to it as %p.
Okay, it can happen to the best of us (and I am NOT the best of us :) :) :)).
I missed the fact that they *DID* put the pointer-format representation
into the ANSI printf(). In fact, Michael Meissner at OSF (the guy who got
X3J11 to include '%p') was kind enough to point this out.
THIS solves a lot of problems for portability, and I for one am very glad
I was wrong (I've been grumbling all this time about not being able to
portably print pointers).
[p'p'p'-- say THAT 5 times fast!]
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