On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Jakub Wilk <jw...@debian.org> wrote:
> * Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpa...@gmail.com>, 2014-07-31, 12:42:
>
>> I've applied the patch below.
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>> +That argument shall be an
>> +.I "int\ *",
>> +or variant, as specified by the
>> +.B l
>> +or
>> +.B ll
>> +length modifier.
>
>
> Hmm. Why only l or ll?
>
> According to the C99 standard, all the length modifiers that can be used
> with integer conversions (hh, h, l, ll, j, z, t) can be also used with %n.
>
> --
> Jakub Wilk

Good point. How about:

[[
That argument shall be an
.I "int\ *",
or variant whose size matches the (optionally)
supplied integer length modifier.
]]

?

Cheers,

Michael
-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/


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