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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
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Subject: Re: Nasty GCC bug?
To: karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se (Mikael Karpberg)
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 21:46:02 +0000 (GMT)
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In-Reply-To: <199801202125.WAA22867@ocean.campus.luth.se> from "Mikael Karpberg" at Jan 20, 98 10:25:16 pm
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> > %x expects and int, %lx expects a long.  There is not one that expects
> > a short or a char.
> 
> Er... Terry? Tried "man sprintf"? :-)

Naw, I was doing "man printf", which was getting me the shell printf.  8-).


> none for int, l for long, h for short.   Thus %hx.

That works for a 'short'; what about my 'char'?

VMS used to have a ":", I think, for something like "%02:2x" to
truncate values larger than the field.  Unfortunately, if the value
was larger, it would put out asterisks instead of digits, to
indicate that you had overflowed the thing.  8-(.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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