>I believe it's the standard that is broken, and should be fixed.
>There's no point in defining special types when you don't provide
>a methode to display them. Not only off_t is affected, but also
>size_t, pid_t, gid_t, uid_t etc. It's not guaranteed that any of
>those can be casted to int/u_int or long/u_long.

(well, *id_t are POSIX's fault...)

Yup.  I have been muttering about producing an actual proposed change
to printf to allow this.

-s