Re: `quad' printf format specifier ?

["Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu>]

 > From: Zack Weinberg <zack@blastula.phys.columbia.edu>
 > 
 > On Sat, 6 Feb 1999 01:10:39 +0100, Marc Espie wrote:
 > >What is the exact status of the quad format specifier in printf ("qd"
 > >extension) ?
 > >
 > >As far as I know, it is intended to handle 64 bits comfortably on all
 > >machines, and was originally a bsd-ism (quad_t).
 > >
 > >However, egcs (and gcc before that) treats it as equivalent to ll, which
 > >is not always equivalent: openbsd-alpha is configured so that long is
 > >64 bits, and hence quad_t is typedef'ed to long.
 > >
 > >In that particular case, the printf-like attribute doesn't work as 
 > >intended.
 > 
 > If sizeof (long long) == sizeof (long) on openbsd-alpha, it should work
 > anyway - i.e. %ld, %lld, and %qd should be interchangeable.  What problems
 > are you seeing?


	They might _work_ interchangeably, but the -Wformat checks would
flag one (or more) as incorrect.  (Cause its not portable to assume
sizeof (long long) == sizeof (long), and the format checks make sure
your code would work anywhere.)


 > (Note this is a libc issue, not a compiler issue, unless your problem is
 > with gcc's format checking.)
 > zw

	I think his problem is with gcc's format checking.

I think either openbsd's notion of quad_t is incorrect, or gcc -Wformat
check is wrong.  Is there any standard that governs quad_t that says its
either a long long or 64 bits?

		--Kaveh
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