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Date:      Sun, 27 Nov 2011 15:29:18 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
To:        Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Mikolaj Golub <trociny@FreeBSD.org>, mdf@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r227873 - head/usr.bin/procstat
Message-ID:  <20111127152712.X1152@besplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <20111126171140.GF8794@garage.freebsd.pl>
References:  <201111230734.pAN7YA78032998@svn.freebsd.org> <CAMBSHm9=kToWP8kmc5YqfMeAC%2BeX_677MPsVK5cqrNaHekSctA@mail.gmail.com> <20111126171140.GF8794@garage.freebsd.pl>

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On Sat, 26 Nov 2011, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 11:10:47AM -0800, mdf@FreeBSD.org wrote:
>> I don't know if there's a style preference for 0x%lx versus %#lx,
>> though, or a preference for a different type for the print (uintmax_t,
>> for example).  There is probably a preference for using u_long rather
>> than unsigned long, since it's shorter.
>
> u_long is preferred in kernel, in userland unsigned long is better.

u_long is preferred in FreeBSD code in both, but portable code cannot
use it.  Portable code is very rare.

Bruce



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