Yeah, I noticed that myself recently.
On 6 July 2011 12:48, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
> Nope. I think it's only in there because of lazyness, in general. %lu
> seems to be the correct choice.
Yes, it's the correct choice.
>> Thirdly, why are we not trying to print a textual message?
>
> I'd say that depends on where it is. In some cases probably because
> it's "can never happen" messages. In other cases because, well, no
> reason :)
I'd also say it has something to do with the win32 API being as ugly
and counter-intuitive as it is. Take a look at this:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms680582(v=VS.85).aspx
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