On Thu, 22 Sep 2011, John P. Hartmann wrote:

> My apologies. %zd is a GNU extension to POSIX.
>
> There is no posix solution to the quagmire of size_t (and ssize_t).
>
> The pragmatic solution is to use long and %ld instead.

Right, although that too can introduce warnings or more or less ugly typecasts
like on win64 where size_t is 64 bit but long 32 bit.

There's just no easy and good-looking way to do this. Internally in libcurl
we've solved this by having our own portable *printf() but in the examples we
better not do it that way...

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