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From: Mike Barcroft <mike@freebsd.org>
To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
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	Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Subject: Re: Warns for tcopy and wc.
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David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> writes:
> I presume casting to intmax_t will be the oficially blessed way of
> printing typedefed things now? If so we should make gcc's format
> warning code understand the %j modifier - maybe I should look into
> that (or maybe some of the FreeBSD standards people are doing that?).

Yes, intmax_t is guaranteed to be capable of representing any value of
any signed integer.  Similarly, uintmax_t is guaranteed to be capable
of representing any value of any unsigned integer.  It would probably
be a good idea to teach GCC about these types.

> Is it apropriate to use intmax_t where you want to count something
> big? For example, would it be OK to change wc and tcopy to use
> intmax_t instead of the int64_t and quad_t which they currently
> use?

That seems like a reasonable use to me.

Best regards,
Mike Barcroft

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