X/Open placement format specifiers (was: Why "long long" doesn't work.)

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From: Steven Correll
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 1995 02:37

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In article <KANZE.95Aug30160350@slsvhdt.lts.sel.alcatel.de>,
James Kanze US/ESC 60/3/141 #40763 <kanze@lts.sel.alcatel.de> wrote:
>As a follow-on: is there any proposal to add the X/Open placement
>format specifiers to the standard?

I too would love to see the X/Open placement format specifiers added to the
standard. They have been widely implemented; they're widely used; they do not
interfere with existing conforming programs; and they solve a problem which
is difficult to solve otherwise--which is more than one can say of many of
the proposals drifting around for C9X.
-- 
Steven Correll == PO Box 66625, Scotts Valley, CA 95067 == sjc@netcom.com

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