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Date:      Wed, 09 Oct 2002 14:04:19 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Subject:   Re: lp64 vs lp32 printf
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20021009140419.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <15780.26700.615985.133379@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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On 09-Oct-2002 Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> 
> Peter Wemm writes:
>  > > 
>  > > Um, using intmax_t to print size_t's would be incorrect, since it is
>  > > signed.  Using uintmax_t would be bloat.  Very few typedefed types
>  > > need the full bloat of [u]intmax_t, and size_t is unlikely to become
>  > > one of them before casting it to uintmax_t to print it becomes a style
>  > > bug in the kernel too (when %z is implemented).
>  > 
>  > Bring it on!  The sooner %z gets here the better.  The only problem is that
>  > gcc has been taught that %z means something different in the kernel. :-(
> 
> Where is gcc taught these things?  Can we update it?

We should be able to change the kernel %z to some other weird letter.

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