integer types. Use the PRId<N>, PRIu<N>, and PRIx<N> macros from
<inttypes.h> for formatting them with printf() and related functions.
- Use %zu to format size_t with printf().
+ For compatibility with antique printf() implementations:
+
+ - Instead of "%zu", use "%"PRIuSIZE.
+
+ - Instead of "%td", use "%"PRIdPTR.
+
+ - Instead of "%ju", use "%"PRIuMAX.
+
+Other variants exist for different radixes. For example, use
+"%"PRIxSIZE instead of "%zx" or "%x" instead of "%hhx".
+
+ Also, instead of "%hhd", use "%d". Be cautious substituting "%u",
+"%x", and "%o" for the corresponding versions with "hh": cast the
+argument to unsigned char if necessary, because printf("%hhu", -1)
+prints 255 but printf("%u", -1) prints 4294967295.
Use bit-fields sparingly. Do not use bit-fields for layout of
network protocol fields or in other circumstances where the exact