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In article <4ikh3o$2kv@sundog.tiac.net> stanr@tiac.net (Stan Ryckman) writes:

   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.

To the contrary, you have to find a statement that size_t is required
to be one of the specified list of types, or it can be anything that
integer operations work on correctly.

   (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.)

This implies that ANSI is inherently unbroken.  The standard might
actually have a flaw, you know!  In fact, that's exactly the *point*
here.  Prohibiting systems from using more than three widths of
integers would be a flaw; allowing it but not solving the printf
problem is a flaw.  

Michael