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authorAntony Dovgal <tony2001@php.net>2008-08-18 14:34:32 +0000
committerAntony Dovgal <tony2001@php.net>2008-08-18 14:34:32 +0000
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@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ Type specifiers
Note on 64bit compatibility
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Please do not forget that int and long are two different things on 64bit
-OSes (int is 4bit and long is 8bit), so make sure you pass longs to "l"
+OSes (int is 4 bytes and long is 8 bytes), so make sure you pass longs to "l"
and ints to strings length (i.e. for "s" you need to pass char * and int),
not the other way round!
Remember: "l" is the only case when you need to pass long (and that's why