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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: Sun, 23 Mar 2025 11:01:16 +0200
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On Thu, 20 Mar 2025 15:55:21 -0000 (UTC)
Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Mar 2025 17:29:22 +0200
> Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> wibbled:
> >> 
> >>   
> >
> >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?  
> 
> Just use %llu everywhere. Warnings only matter if they're important
> ones.
> 

Unimportant warnings matter a lot, because they make seeing
important warnings so much harder.