cent and ucent?

[Walter Bright]

On 1/29/2012 3:31 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> Yeah, size_t especially drives me up the wall. Is it %u, %lu, or %llu?
> I think either gcc or C99 actually has a dedicated printf format for
> size_t, except that C++ doesn't include parts of C99, so you end up with
> format string #ifdef nightmare no matter what you do. I'm so glad that
> %s takes care of it all in D. Yet another thing D has done right.

size_t does have a C99 Standard official format %z. The trouble is,

1. many compilers *still* don't implement it.

2. that doesn't do you any good for any other typedef's that change size.

printf is the single biggest nuisance in porting code between 32 and 64 bits.