Re: [PATCH] use %p for pointers

From: Andreas Schwab
Date: Thu Oct 12 2006 - 07:52:30 EST


Nikita Danilov <nikita@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> man 3 printf:
>
> p The void * pointer argument is printed in hexadeci-
> mal (as if by %#x or %#lx).
>
> so %p already has to output '0x',

That is an detail of this particular implementation.

> it's lib/vsprintf.c to blame for non-conforming behavior.

The standard makes it completely implementation defined.

Andreas.

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