Casts

[Johan Bengtsson]

Johan Bengtsson said:


The Standard allows for the possibility that not all pointers have the
same size or representation. Rather than provide a different format
specifier for every single pointer type - an impossible task - C
requires that the pointer provided to match a %p conversion specifier
must be a pointer to void.

Ahh, ok, I don't think I *ever* have seen such a cast in a printf
function call before however.

 

[Richard Heathfield]

Johan Bengtsson said:

Richard Heathfield wrote:

Ahh, ok, I don't think I *ever* have seen such a cast in a printf
function call before however.

There are a lot of things you don't commonly see in C code, that you
should see. And there are a lot of things that you shouldn't see, that
you do see. The comp.lang.c newsgroup is not responsible for the C code
that you see - you are. If you see broken stuff that matters, fix it.