Re: [MiNT] gcc -mshort question

[Oddie Jonathan <oddie@bvsd.k12.co.us>]

>Hi Jonathan!
>
>OJ>Just yesterday I noticed that my gcc seems to be doing strange things
>OJ>when -mshort is enabled. It reports sizeof(short)=0, long=2, int=0,
>OJ>and char=4. Without -mshort shorts are 2, longs and ints 4, and chars
>OJ>1, just as it should be.
>Do not use %d, %u or %x  in the format string for printf(), use %ld, %lu or
>%lx instead (the values returned by sizeof are 4 Bytes long)

OK -- I never knew about those conversions, as I've just been using
the back of the K&R book for library reference.

I still think it might be a good idea to get a new compiler though :)


Thanks

ttfn
Jonathan