Re: Test failure with negative substring offsets

[Peter Stephenson <Peter.Stephenson@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 23 May 2011 09:10:52 -0700
Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On May 23,  4:56pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> }
> } stdarg doesn't know the arguments need to be converted to integers
> to } fit the size being claimed in the printf prototype.
> 
> Er, wouldn't it therefore have been better to change the prototype to
> expect a long?

It's not necessarily a long, so it would still need a cast.  It would
certainly have been possible to use %ld / (long)..., however.

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