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From: Chris Morrow <cmorrow@YottaYotta.com>
Subject: Re: sizeof(long) different under windows x64 and linux x64
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:41:20 -0700
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Andy Grover wrote:

> I think it's very hard to be LP64/LLP64-clean without actual testing on
> both.

Printf format statements need to reflect whether the 64 bit type is a 
long or a long long.

uintptr_t foo
printf("%lx", foo) or printf("%llx", foo);

This can be a pain to resolve. /usr/include/inttypes.h has defines that 
are supposed to help with this, but they are ugly to use.

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