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Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:
> On 27.01.2024 21:17, Malcolm McLean wrote:
[...]
>> printf() is the
>> main C interface to that, and supports integers, floats and strings, to
>> a first approximation.
>
> It's not an approximation; printf() is _restricted_ to these types (and
> a few more variants of these few basic types, to be correct).

printf also supports pointer values with "%p".  And it support single
characters, which are not strings.

strings of cousre absolutely do not have to be ASCII.  Using printf to
print data with embedded null bytes is tricky -- but of course printf is
not the only interface.  We can print arbitrary data with putchar,
fwrite, etc.

And in environments like POSIX that don't distinguish between text and
binary output streams, it can be perfectly sensible (though not 100%
portable) to send binary data to stdout.

[...]

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
Working, but not speaking, for Medtronic
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */