Date: Sat, 7 Aug 1999 16:52:02 +0200 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely.de> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.ORG>, 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: <19990807165202.A37288@cicely8.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <19990807093848.19DF31C1F@overcee.netplex.com.au>; from Peter Wemm on Sat, Aug 07, 1999 at 05:38:48PM %2B0800 References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908070138180.9444-100000@janus.syracuse.net> <19990807093848.19DF31C1F@overcee.netplex.com.au>
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On Sat, Aug 07, 1999 at 05:38:48PM +0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > "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. Mmm and long is 32Bit it seems. At least that would explain some of the warnings I got when setting MAXDSIZ to 128G on alpha. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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