Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 21:50:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, ache@nagual.pp.ru, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Nasty GCC bug? Message-ID: <199801202150.OAA29572@usr06.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <19980120133154.34281@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> from "John-Mark Gurney" at Jan 20, 98 01:31:54 pm
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> actually... there is one for the short... didn't you read the man page? :) > o The optional character h, specifying that a following d, i, o, u, x, > or X conversion corresponds to a short int or unsigned short int ar- > gument, or that a following n conversion corresponds to a pointer to > a short int argument. > > but the char one is missing... I nominate "%bx"; it's be helpful for scanf(), as well, to indicate the pointer value points to a "byte" so you can give the address of a character variable. > > Also, my field width limits are being ignored. I kind of expected > > it to print out a field limit's worth of hex characters, starting at > > the lsb. > > yes... you specified minium field width.. therer is no way to limit > the number of characters outputed from x... You forgot the part about it sucking. ;-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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