> so you can't e.g. just easily print size_t using the standard printf formatters This has been fixed in C99. For size_t, it's "%zu", for ptrdiff_t it's "%td"

> so you can't e.g. just easily print size_t using the standard printf formatters This has been fixed in C99. For size_t, it's "%zu", for ptrdiff_t it's "%td", for ssize_t it's "&zd" and for wchar_t, it's "&lc".