Style guides and portability

[Stanley Friesen]

In article <1332 at geovision.UUCP> pt at geovision.gvc.com writes:
>scs at adam.mit.edu (Steve Summit) writes:
>If I remember correctly, variadic functions are type promoted the same way
>classic C functions are, integer types (char, int, unsigned, etc) are 
>promoted to long, real types (float, double) are promoted to double.

BEEP, you remember wrong.  Even for classic C you are wrong.
The 'short' integer types (char, short) are promoted to int, but
int is not (and never was) promoted to long (at least in funtion calls).

If int had been promoted to long, the %ld would be unnecessary.
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uunet!tdatirv!sarima				(Stanley Friesen)