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In article <MIB.96Mar18105957@gnu.ai.mit.edu>,
Michael I. Bushnell, p/BSG <mib@gnu.ai.mit.edu> wrote:
>In article <4ifq40$i87@sundog.tiac.net> stanr@tiac.net (Stan Ryckman) writes:
[snip]
>   [re Posix.2]
[snip]
>   Can't you safely do this with casting to the (possibly unsigned) long
>   type?  e.g.,
>	   pid_t whatever;
>	   ...
>	   printf( "%lu\n", (unsigned long) whatever);
>   A pain, but hardly a "can't".
>
>You are not guaranteed that long is the widest integral type.  

At the risk of re-starting the ages-old "long long" debate, I
can't find anything in the ANSI standard that permits this.
I don't have a Posix standard.

(All that's needed for printing whatever_t types would be confirmation
that they are no larger than unsigned long.  I think that allowing
them to be larger would break ANSI even if "long long" were an
allowed extension.)

<now running to edge of ring and tagging experts to jump in>

Cheers,
Stan.
--
Stan Ryckman  (stanr@tiac.net)
  (Apologies for non-responses or late responses to some posts;
  .newsrc was trashed and I'm trying to get it back to where it was.)