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[Phil Mayers]

On 10/17/2012 09:04 AM, Brian Candler wrote:

> Aside: this uses "%u", sizeof(...) for the first argument. Is it guaranteed
> that sizeof() is int on all platforms?

Very much not. sizeof returns size_t which is always unsigned (so never 
"int"), but otherwise implementation (compiler) dependent. In principle 
"%zu" is the correct format spec. However, I'm not sure how widely 
supported that is on older compilers - even on current ones.

> I guess if there's any doubt,
>
>      "%lu", (long)sizeof(...)
>
> should be pretty safe.

Yuck. Cast of unsigned to signed :oP

TBH it's a fairly theoretical argument; sizeof is used on objects whose 
size tends to be in the range 1-100k and specified at compile time. The 
odds of sizeof ever returning >2**31 are very, very remote, at least 
with current system architectures.