[c] How do you format an unsigned long long int using printf?

#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
    unsigned long long int num = 285212672; //FYI: fits in 29 bits
    int normalInt = 5;
    printf("My number is %d bytes wide and its value is %ul. A normal number is %d.\n", sizeof(num), num, normalInt);
    return 0;
}

Output:

My number is 8 bytes wide and its value is 285212672l. A normal number is 0.

I assume this unexpected result is from printing the unsigned long long int. How do you printf() an unsigned long long int?

Compile it as x64 with VS2005:

%llu works well.

Well, one way is to compile it as x64 with VS2008

This runs as you would expect:

int normalInt = 5; 
unsigned long long int num=285212672;
printf(
    "My number is %d bytes wide and its value is %ul. 
    A normal number is %d \n", 
    sizeof(num), 
    num, 
    normalInt);

For 32 bit code, we need to use the correct __int64 format specifier %I64u. So it becomes.

int normalInt = 5; 
unsigned __int64 num=285212672;
printf(
    "My number is %d bytes wide and its value is %I64u. 
    A normal number is %d", 
    sizeof(num),
    num, normalInt);

This code works for both 32 and 64 bit VS compiler.

That is because %llu doesn't work properly under Windows and %d can't handle 64 bit integers. I suggest using PRIu64 instead and you'll find it's portable to Linux as well.

Try this instead:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <inttypes.h>

int main() {
    unsigned long long int num = 285212672; //FYI: fits in 29 bits
    int normalInt = 5;
    /* NOTE: PRIu64 is a preprocessor macro and thus should go outside the quoted string. */
    printf("My number is %d bytes wide and its value is %" PRIu64 ". A normal number is %d.\n", sizeof(num), num, normalInt);
    return 0;
}

Output

My number is 8 bytes wide and its value is 285212672. A normal number is 5.

In addition to what people wrote years ago:

• you might get this error on gcc/mingw:

main.c:30:3: warning: unknown conversion type character 'l' in format [-Wformat=]

printf("%llu\n", k);

Then your version of mingw does not default to c99. Add this compiler flag: -std=c99.

Hex:

printf("64bit: %llp", 0xffffffffffffffff);

Output:

64bit: FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

%d--> for int

%u--> for unsigned int

%ld--> for long int or long

%lu--> for unsigned long int or long unsigned int or unsigned long

%lld--> for long long int or long long

%llu--> for unsigned long long int or unsigned long long

In Linux it is %llu and in Windows it is %I64u

Although I have found it doesn't work in Windows 2000, there seems to be a bug there!

Non-standard things are always strange :)

for the long long portion under GNU it's L, ll or q

and under windows I believe it's ll only

How do you format an unsigned long long int using printf?

Since C99 use an "ll" (ell-ell) before the conversion specifiers o,u,x,X.

In addition to base 10 options in many answers, there are base 16 and base 8 options:

Choices include

unsigned long long num = 285212672;
printf("Base 10: %llu\n", num);
num += 0xFFF; // For more interesting hex/octal output.
printf("Base 16: %llX\n", num); // Use uppercase A-F
printf("Base 16: %llx\n", num); // Use lowercase a-f
printf("Base  8: %llo\n", num);
puts("or 0x,0X prefix");
printf("Base 16: %#llX %#llX\n", num, 0ull); // When non-zero, print leading 0x
printf("Base 16: %#llx %#llx\n", num, 0ull);
printf("Base 16: 0x%llX\n", num); // My hex fave: lower case prefix, with A-F

Output

Base 10: 285212672
Base 16: 11000FFF
Base 16: 11000fff
Base  8: 2100007777
or 0x,0X prefix
Base 16: 0X11000FFF 0
Base 16: 0x11000fff 0
Base 16: 0x11000FFF

Apparently no one has come up with a multi-platform* solution for over a decade since [the] year 2008, so I shall append mine . Plz upvote. (Joking. I don’t care.)

Solution: lltoa()

How to use:

#include <stdlib.h> /* lltoa() */
// ...
char dummy[255];
printf("Over 4 bytes: %s\n", lltoa(5555555555, dummy, 10));
printf("Another one: %s\n", lltoa(15555555555, dummy, 10));

OP’s example:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h> /* lltoa() */

int main() {
    unsigned long long int num = 285212672; // fits in 29 bits
    char dummy[255];
    int normalInt = 5;
    printf("My number is %d bytes wide and its value is %s. "
        "A normal number is %d.\n", 
        sizeof(num), lltoa(num, dummy, 10), normalInt);
    return 0;
}

Unlike the %lld print format string, this one works for me under 32-bit GCC on Windows.

*) Well, almost multi-platform. In MSVC, you apparently need _ui64toa() instead of lltoa().

You may want to try using the inttypes.h library that gives you types such as int32_t, int64_t, uint64_t etc. You can then use its macros such as:

uint64_t x;
uint32_t y;

printf("x: %"PRId64", y: %"PRId32"\n", x, y);

This is "guaranteed" to not give you the same trouble as long, unsigned long long etc, since you don't have to guess how many bits are in each data type.

For long long (or __int64) using MSVS, you should use %I64d:

__int64 a;
time_t b;
...
fprintf(outFile,"%I64d,%I64d\n",a,b);    //I is capital i