From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Oct 9 11:20:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A13F837B401 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 11:20:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail14.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.214]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3469843E75 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 11:20:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 6928 invoked from network); 9 Oct 2002 18:20:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail14.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 9 Oct 2002 18:20:28 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g99IKPn5011602; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 14:20:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 14:20:29 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: John Baldwin Subject: Re: lp64 vs lp32 printf Cc: Peter Wemm , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Andrew Gallatin Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 09-Oct-2002 John Baldwin wrote: > > 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. Actually, nothing in the kernel uses %z. It is a version of %x that allows for a sign (e.g. -0x10 instead of 0xfffffff0, or +0x10). -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message