Re: seperator error in __mask_snprintf_len

[Joe Korty]

> >  ==> However, _within_ each word, I suspect that I have the bytes arse
> > backwards on a big endian machine.  The underlying snprintf("%x") and
> > strtoul() routines that I call will presume that the byte order of the
> > referenced u32 binary word is native (big on big endian).  Not good.
> 
> Why do you have to reference them as u32?  Why can't you use unsigned
> long instead?  That should Just Work.

I believe he wants the commas to group the digits by at most eight
irrespective of architecture.  Which seems reasonable.

Joe
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