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Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 21:53:55 -0400
From: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>
To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Subject: Re: lp64 vs lp32 printf
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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> On 09-Oct-2002 Mike Barcroft wrote:
> > Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> writes:
> >> 
> >> What's the accepted way to printf something (like sizeof()) which
> >> boils down to "unsigned int" on x86 and "unsigned long" on the LP64
> >> platforms?  
> > 
> > In userland you can use %z for printing size_t's.  In the kernel,
> > casting to intmax_t/uintmax_t and using %j is correct.
> 
> We could add '%z' to the kernel and change whatever hack %z DDB is
> using in db_printf() to be some other letter.

This would be ideal.

Best regards,
Mike Barcroft

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