From: Nate Eldredge <neldredge AT hmc DOT edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Program too large?
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 16:27:21 -0700
Organization: Harvey Mudd College
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Martin Ambuhl wrote:
> 
> Tom Morton wrote:
> 
> > BTW any way of avoiding warnings associated with
> >
> > sprintf(buffer, "%d", long integer);
> >
> > It reports that format should be integer and not long but works fine
> > with long.
> 
> [Yes we know that is not your real code.  Wouldn't have been as easy to
> use
>    long x;
>    sprintf(biffer,"%d", x);
> as your example?  It would avoid an additional syntax error which is
> unrelated to your question.]
> 
> "Works fine" is the road to damnation.  Your code is wrong and needs
> fixing.  You avoid this warning by writing correct code.  The specifier
> for a (signed) long is "%ld".

Or cast the long to int when you pass it.
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Nate Eldredge
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