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+# Print Format Specifiers
+
+## Lookup Table
+
+We use the following format specifiers for all \*printf\* and WLog_* functions:
+
+| Type | signed | unsigned | octal | hex | HEX |
+| ------------------ | --------- | --------- | --------- | --------- | --------- |
+| signed char | %hhd | | | | |
+| unsigned char | | %hhu | %hho | %hhx | %hhX |
+| short | %hd | | | | |
+| unsigned short | | %hu | %ho | %hx | %hX |
+| int | %d | | | | |
+| unsigned int | | %u | %o | %x | %X |
+| long | %ld | | | | |
+| unsigned long | | %lu | %lo | %lx | %lX |
+| long long | %lld | | | | |
+| unsigned long long | | %llu | %llo | %llx | %llX |
+| size_t | | %"PRIuz" | %"PRIoz" | %"PRIxz" | %"PRIXz" |
+| INT8 | %"PRId8" | | | | |
+| UINT8 | | %"PRIu8" | %"PRIo8" | %"PRIx8" | %"PRIX8" |
+| BOOLEAN | | %"PRIu8" | %"PRIo8" | %"PRIx8" | %"PRIX8" |
+| BYTE | | %"PRIu8" | %"PRIo8" | %"PRIx8" | %"PRIX8" |
+| CHAR | %"PRId8" | | | | |
+| UCHAR | | %"PRIu8" | %"PRIo8" | %"PRIx8" | %"PRIX8" |
+| INT16 | %"PRId16" | | | | |
+| UINT16 | | %"PRIu16" | %"PRIo16" | %"PRIx16" | %"PRIX16" |
+| WORD | | %"PRIu16" | %"PRIo16" | %"PRIx16" | %"PRIX16" |
+| WCHAR | | %"PRIu16" | %"PRIo16" | %"PRIx16" | %"PRIX16" |
+| SHORT | %"PRId16" | | | | |
+| USHORT | | %"PRIu16" | %"PRIo16" | %"PRIx16" | %"PRIX16" |
+| INT32 | %"PRId32" | | | | |
+| UINT32 | | %"PRIu32" | %"PRIo32" | %"PRIx32" | %"PRIX32" |
+| INT | %"PRId32" | | | | |
+| UINT | | %"PRIu32" | %"PRIo32" | %"PRIx32" | %"PRIX32" |
+| LONG | %"PRId32" | | | | |
+| HRESULT | %"PRId32" | | | %"PRIx32" | %"PRIX32" |
+| NTSTATUS | %"PRId32" | | | %"PRIx32" | %"PRIX32" |
+| ULONG | | %"PRIu32" | %"PRIo32" | %"PRIx32" | %"PRIX32" |
+| DWORD | | %"PRIu32" | %"PRIo32" | %"PRIx32" | %"PRIX32" |
+| DWORD32 | | %"PRIu32" | %"PRIo32" | %"PRIx32" | %"PRIX32" |
+| BOOL | %"PRId32" | | | | |
+| INT64 | %"PRId64" | | | | |
+| LONG64 | %"PRId64" | | | | |
+| LONGLONG | %"PRId64" | | | | |
+| UINT64 | | %"PRIu64" | %"PRIo64" | %"PRIx64" | %"PRIX64" |
+| ULONG64 | | %"PRIu64" | %"PRIo64" | %"PRIx64" | %"PRIX64" |
+| ULONGLONG | | %"PRIu64" | %"PRIo64" | %"PRIx64" | %"PRIX64" |
+| DWORDLONG | | %"PRIu64" | %"PRIo64" | %"PRIx64" | %"PRIX64" |
+| QWORD | | %"PRIu64" | %"PRIo64" | %"PRIx64" | %"PRIX64" |
+| ULONG64 | | %"PRIu64" | %"PRIo64" | %"PRIx64" | %"PRIX64" |
+
+
+## Pointers
+
+When printing pointers you should cast the argument to ``(void*)``:
+
+```c
+rdpContext *pContext;
+fprintf(stderr, "rdp context is %p\n", (void*) pContext);
+```
+
+If you need more formatting options cast the pointer argument to `size_t` and use
+any %"PRI*z" format specifier:
+
+```c
+rdpContext *pContext;
+fprintf(stderr, "rdp context is %" PRIuz " (0x%" PRIXz ")\n", (size_t) pContext, (size_t) pContext);
+```
+
+
+## Integer Promotion
+
+Remember that integer types smaller than int are promoted when an operation is
+performed on them.
+
+Wrong:
+
+```c
+UINT8 a, b;
+fprintf(stderr, "a - b is %" PRIu8 "\n", a - b);
+// depending on the system's PRIu8 definition you might get:
+// warning: format specifies type 'unsigned char' but the argument has type 'int'
+```
+
+Correct:
+
+```c
+UINT8 a, b;
+fprintf(stderr, "a - b is %d\n", a - b);
+// or ...
+fprintf(stderr, "a - b is %" PRIu8 "\n", (UINT8) (a - b));
+```
+
+## TCHAR
+
+When using `_tprintf` or similar TCHAR formatting functions or macros you
+need to enclose the PRI format defines:
+
+```c
+LPCTSTR lpFileName1;
+UINT64 fileSize1;
+
+_tprintf(_T("The size of %s is %") _T(PRIu64) _T("\n"), lpFileName1, fileSize1);
+```
+
+Since this makes the strings a lot harder to read try to avoid _tprintf if the
+arguments don't contain TCHAR types.
+
+Note: If all compilers were C99 compliant we could simply write ...
+
+```c
+_tprintf(_T("The size of %s is %") PRIu64 "\n"), lpFileName1, fileSize1);
+```
+
+... since the standard says that only one of the character sequences must be
+prefixed by an encoding prefix and the rest of them are treated to have the
+same. However, Microsoft Visual Studio versions older than VS 2015 are not C99
+compliant in this regard.
+
+See [How to use stdint types with _tprintf in Visual Studio 2013](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41126081/how-to-use-stdint-types-with-tprintf-in-visual-studio-2013)
+for more information.
+
+
+
+## Links
+
+- [[MS-DTYP] 2.2 Common Data Types](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc230309.aspx)
+- [Understand integer conversion rules](https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/c/INT02-C.+Understand+integer+conversion+rules)
+- [Printf format strings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printf_format_string)
+- [C data types - Basic Types](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_data_types#Basic_types)