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From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org>
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To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
Cc: Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>,
	Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: quad_t and portability 
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On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, 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.

And 'q' on the alpha is what exactly, then?

> 
> Cheers,
> -Peter
> 
> 

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