Re: Whats the use of %p

"Malcolm" <regniztar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
# >
# > What kind of formating can be done with %p in printf
# >
# There's never any point in printing out a pointer except to debug code.
# Hence no reason to format nicely for the user's consumption.

Creates unique strings for things like hash table keys.

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