Pointer representation in the server

Soeren Sandmann sandmann at daimi.au.dk
Thu Jan 13 11:05:30 PST 2005


Adam Jackson <ajax at nwnk.net> writes:

> Is there any objection to requiring that printf support the %p modifier?  
> There are quite a few places in the server where we use 0x%08lx to print 
> pointer values, which is both harder to read than %p and wrong for LP64 
> systems.  We do use %p in several places as well, so this is really more of a 
> cleanup than a policy decision.

I think that's fine. %p is required by the C standard anyway.


Søren




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