%d or %ld for datatype int?

[Rich Johnson]

On Monday, December 22, 2003, at 03:51 PM, Eljay Love-Jensen wrote:

> Hi Rich,
>
> Try this:
> printf (  "%ld seconds into the epoch\n", (long int)now.tv_sec );
>
Thanks,  I don't know why but it takes me a bit of effort to accept the 
need for a cast--especially after all the effort that went into 
typedefs for int32_t, __time_t, etc.

I  rationalize the cast as producing "what printf" expects rather than 
what "the data is".  It also helps to realize that it will work with 
64-bit architectures, no matter what __time_t is defined to be.

--rich