Re: Defining more PRIxxx macros

[uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost (Valeriy E. Ushakov)]

Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 10:53:08AM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
>>       off_t -> PRIdOFF, PRIiOFF, PRIoOFF, PRIuOFF, ...
>>       [s]size_t -> PRIdSIZE, PRIiSIZE, PRIoSIZE, PRIuSIZE, ...
> 
> Why size_t? C99 has defined formats modifiers for size_t (z) and
> ptrdiff_t (t). So using %zu to print a size_t is more portable than
> "%" PRIuSIZE.

That's probably tangential, but microsoft still does not support 'z'
(at least not in VC 2005, dunno about VC 2008).

SY, Uwe
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