Date: Sat, 07 Aug 1999 17:38:48 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: quad_t and portability Message-ID: <19990807093848.19DF31C1F@overcee.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 07 Aug 1999 01:39:18 -0400." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908070138180.9444-100000@janus.syracuse.net>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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