Subject: Re: Printing of off_t and size_t values
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: Luke Mewburn <lukem@netbsd.org>
List: tech-misc
Date: 01/20/2003 21:12:50
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 09:06:03PM +1100, matthew green wrote:
  |    Is that OK? One option is to leave out the first part and use
  |    PRId64 (and friends) always.
  |
  |    I volunteer to change all occurances in-tree to whatever we agree
  |    upon (skiping gnu/dist).
  | 
  | 
  | you can't break "tools" programs.  making them require C99 breaks them.

if you just use the "PRId64" method, this isn't an issue; you just
provide the appropriate #defines required to print a given size on a
given host platform in tools/compat (or whatever).

luke.