Style guides and portability

[Lars Wirzenius]

In article <1991Jan13.182655.17672 at athena.mit.edu> scs at adam.mit.edu writes:
>P.S. The answer to "How do you print something declared with
>`int32 bigint;' ?" is that you have to abandon printf in favor of
>something you define, like "print32".  I find this awkward, and

Is there any problem in using 

	printf("%ld", (long) bigint)

other than that it's clumsy?

Lars Wirzenius    wirzeniu at cs.helsinki.fi    wirzenius at cc.helsinki.fi