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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> writes:
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> I agree that the macros in <stdint.h> are ugly, and I rarely
> use them.  If I want to print an integer value whose type I don't
> know, I'll probably cast to a predefined type that I know to be
> wide enough and use the specifier for that type.  Though now that
> I think about it, I'm more likely to do that in throwaway code;
> for production code, I'd be more likely to use the <stdint.h> macros.

Correction: the macros are defined in <inttypes.h>, not <stdint.h>.
(<inttypes.h> includes <stdint.h> and extends it.)

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */