Re: Suggested method for returning a string from a C program?

On Thu, 20 Mar 2025 15:16:05 -0000 (UTC)
Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org wrote:

On Thu, 20 Mar 2025 16:59:14 +0200
Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> wibbled:

On Thu, 20 Mar 2025 14:50:25 -0000 (UTC)
Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org wrote:
 

 
What makes you think they're macros?
 

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PRIu64 and PRId64 are macros. They are ugly. 

 
Never even heard of them. Looking them up I can't see much use for
them frankly except if you're starting out on an unknown system and
can't find out the info any other way which would be ... odd.
 
 

Then how exactly do you printf value of type int64_t in a code that
expected to pass [gcc] compilation with no warnings on two platforms,
one of which is 64-bit Unix/Linux and another is just about anything
else?