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To: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org>
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	Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: quad_t and portability 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 07 Aug 1999 01:39:18 -0400."
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Date: Sat, 07 Aug 1999 17:38:48 +0800
From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
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"Brian F. Feldman" wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Don Lewis wrote:
> 
> > On Aug 6,  3:29pm, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> > } Subject: quad_t and portability
> > } 
> > } Hi folks,
> > } 
> > } I want to patch wc(1) so that it uses quad_t instead of u_long. This is
> > } necessary if wc(1) is to produce sensible results for files containing
> > } more than 4GB of data.
> > 
> > Why not off_t, which should be portable and scale properly with the
> > maximum system file size.  Then the only problem is figuring a portable
> > means of printing the result ...
> > 
> 
> You can always use off_t with "%qd", (int64_t)foo.

But not on the Alpha...  int64_t is a long there, and gcc complains unless
you use %ld.

Cheers,
-Peter



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