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From: Jens Schweikhardt <usenet@schweikhardt.net>
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Subject: Re: PRI* considered harmful
Date: 19 Jul 2011 19:28:33 GMT
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Greg A. Woods <woods@robohack.org> wrote
	in <87r560c6pp.fsf@once.weird.com>:
...
# Well, for me personally (as opposed to all those I see trying to use
# PRI* poorly), the problem extends to every other typedef name that one
# might define in any application which one hopes to be portable and easy
# to maintain.

That's easy to do portably.  For every

    typedef int32_t foo_t;

have a corresponding

    #define PRIFOO PRId32
    #define SCNFOO SCNd32

in your code (or whatever PRI* corresponds to your typedef.)

Regards,

	Jens
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