[RFC] convert a host address to a string

[Kai Tietz]

Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl> wrote on 08.01.2009 17:18:05:

> > From: Kai Tietz <Kai.Tietz@onevision.com>
> > Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 14:35:11 +0100
> > 
> > Please be aware that %llx isn't valid for x86_64 windows (as it isn't 
for 
> > 32-bit standard). The options 'I' or 'I64' have to be used for those 
> > targets (at least for _WIN64).
> 
> Are you serious?  Wow, that's unbelievable.  %llx is defined by ISO
> C99, and you're saying that even the 64-bit editions of Windows that
> were introduced several years after the standard was ratified (and
> almost a decade after the first drafts were circulated) don't
> implement that bit of the standard?
> 

Sadly, yes. IIRC they implemented it in their newer runtimes, but it 
didn't made it into msvcrt.dll even on 64-bit systems.

Cheers,
Kai

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