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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
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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.