Re: seperator error in __mask_snprintf_len

From: Paul Jackson
Date: Fri Jan 09 2004 - 09:28:56 EST


Joe, responding to Paul M:
> > Why do you have to reference them as u32? Why can't you use unsigned
> > long instead? That should Just Work.
>
> I believe he wants the commas to group the digits by at most eight
> irrespective of architecture. Which seems reasonable.


Yes - that's why I use u32 - each comma separated word in the
ascii representation of a mask represents 32 bits, regardless
of the native word size of the current architecture.

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