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From: Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Suggested method for returning a string from a C program?
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2025 17:29:22 +0200
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On Thu, 20 Mar 2025 15:16:05 -0000 (UTC)
Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Mar 2025 16:59:14 +0200
> Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> wibbled:
> >On Thu, 20 Mar 2025 14:50:25 -0000 (UTC)
> >Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org wrote:
> >  
> >> 
> >> What makes you think they're macros?
> >>   
> >
> >PRIu64 and PRId64 are macros. They are ugly.  
> 
> Never even heard of them. Looking them up I can't see much use for
> them frankly except if you're starting out on an unknown system and
> can't find out the info any other way which would be ... odd.
> 
> 

Then how exactly do you printf value of type int64_t in a code that
expected to pass [gcc] compilation with no warnings on two platforms,
one of which is 64-bit Unix/Linux and another is just about anything
else?