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| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2000-08-02 22:08:51 +0000 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2000-08-02 22:08:51 +0000 |
| commit | 9dd9db0b5e99ed70382d82a6b55eda97b58bfa75 (patch) | |
| tree | c169abd1dfb566581ba9e236f1dd9095f5dbba44 /pod/perlguts.pod | |
| parent | 5e8f63cbcf5357f0c8239b863de15698b006935e (diff) | |
| download | perl-9dd9db0b5e99ed70382d82a6b55eda97b58bfa75.tar.gz | |
Document the IVdf UVuf UVof UVxf.
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diff --git a/pod/perlguts.pod b/pod/perlguts.pod index 8c440c89d3..f2b4b909b8 100644 --- a/pod/perlguts.pod +++ b/pod/perlguts.pod @@ -1877,6 +1877,19 @@ This function isn't exported out of the Perl core. If you edit F<embed.pl>, you will need to run C<make regen_headers> to force a rebuild of F<embed.h> and other auto-generated files. +=head2 Formatted Printing of IVs and UVs + +If you are printing IVs or UVs instead of the stdio(3) style formatting +codes like C<%d> you should use the following macros for portability + + IVdf IV in decimal + UVuf UV in decimal + UVof UV in octal + UVxf UV in hexadecimal + +For example: printf("IV is %"IVdf"\n", iv); That will expand +to whatever is the correct format for the IVs. + =head2 Source Documentation There's an effort going on to document the internal functions and |