On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Garance A Drosehn <g...@freebsd.org> wrote: > Yes, this means that the only reliable way to printf a time_t is > to use a cast. That has been true for at least a decade. It may > be true that you happened to avoid this issue before, but the only > *RELIABLE* platform-independent way to print time_t's is via a cast.
Especially for variadic functions like printf. You can reasonably assume that arithmetic expressions will automagically promote a type to the proper size, but you (Garance) ably reinforce what we've been trying to convey about this particular example. Well, Brahma said, even after ten thousand explanations, a fool is no wiser, but an intelligent man requires only two thousand five hundred. - The Mahābhārata. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
