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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-feed4.bbnplanet.com!netapp.com!netapp.com!not-for-mail From: guy@netapp.com (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals Subject: Re: Solaris 2.6 Date: 6 Dec 1996 17:04:36 -0800 Organization: Network Appliance Lines: 18 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <58afr4$hrj@tooting.netapp.com> References: <32986299.AC7@mail.esrin.esa.it> <casper.329d5a07@mail.fwi.uva.nl> <5869r2$175$1@asgard.sprintlink.co.za> <587mc1$1dc@cucumber.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: tooting.netapp.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.solaris:91674 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1713 comp.unix.internals:11494 Andrew Gabriel <andrew@cucumber.demon.co.uk> wrote: >Out of curiosity, how would you print a pointer (for debugging say)? How portable do you want? On any system on which you have a conforming hosted implementation of ANSI C, printf("pointer = %p\n", ptr); works. It even works on some systems where you *don't* have a conforming hosted implementation of ANSI C; "%p" appears to print pointer values even on Solaris *1*.x. There are probably other systems on which it doesn't work, though. Whether those systems are a target for the code you're writing is another matter; there are probably some people who need to make their code run on those old moldy systems, and others who don't.