bug? in turbo c++

[Henry Spencer]

In article <1991Mar6.173733.430 at unhd.unh.edu> rg at msel.unh.edu (Roger Gonzalez) writes:
>The third number printed is always zero.  It corrects itself if the
>second formatting string is %10ld.  Is this a new ansi-ism?  Will this
>behavior change to what my Unix cc fingers expect if I set it to K&R?
>Is it a bug? ...

It is not a bug; it is correct behavior.  Printing a long with %d has
always been wrong, and if it worked it was because you were lucky in
your choice of machine and compiler such that it accidentally came
out right.
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