How to use stdint types with _tprintf in Visual Studio 2013?

Question

Take the following example:

char* fileName = "C:\\windows\\system32\\kernel32.dll";
uint32_t fileSize = 1163264;
printf("The size of %s is %"PRIu32"\n", fileName, fileSize);

Everything is all right, now if we want transparent unicode support through tchar.h, the code would look like this:

TCHAR* fileName = _T("C:\\windows\\system32\\kernel32.dll");
uint32_t fileSize = 1163264;
_tprintf(_T("The size of %s is %")_T(PRIu32)_T("\n"), fileName, fileSize);

This works if unicode has no . However, if unicode is defined, the compiler breaks with the following error:

error C2308: concatenating mismatched strings
Concatenating wide "The size of %s is %l" with narrow "u"

Now let's look at Microsoft inttypes.h I see:

...
#define _PFX_32  "l"
...
#define PRIu32       _PFX_32 "u"

This means that _T(PRIu32)in the example above it resolves:

_T("l" "u")

... which cannot work, of course, and explains the correct compiler error.

So my question is, how did Microsoft suggest that we use their inttypes.h with _tprintf?

Answer 1

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_tprintf(_T("The size of %s is %") PRIu32 "\n", fileName, fileSize);

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wprintf(L"The largest integer value is %020" PRIxMAX "\n", i);