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Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> writes:

> Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
[...]
>> Yet, people routinely use functions such as 'printf', where the
>> [arguments] really can be anything at all:  [...]
>>
>>     object pointers including strings
>
> The permitted types are rather limited.  For %p its only void *.
> You can pass character pointers and wchar_t pointers for %s and %ls
> respectively, and often overlooked, an int * for %n, but that about
> it.

Also pointers to other signed integer types, for %n conversions
that include a length modifier.