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From: mib@ppe.bb-data.de
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: printf, scanf and %p (was: Solaris 2.6)
Date: 16 Dec 1996 09:04:40 +0100
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andrewg@microlise.co.uk (Andrew Gierth) writes:
> A system with which I have the misfortune to be acquainted (not Unix)
> produces the following output for printf("'%p'",some_pointer):
>
> 'SPP:0000 :1aefQPADEV0010T00AYG1 964158 :fec0:0:158c'
Ugh!
> That pretty conclusively proves that %p output is not portable across
> systems.
Umm, err, why would anyone actually _expect_ a memory location
identifier (which is, basically, what a pointer is) from one machine
to work on another, let alone on a different platform?
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