Re: CVS commit: src/crypto/external/bsd/netpgp/dist/src/lib

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 11:54:32PM +0200, Alistair Crooks wrote:
>       Even in C99, the "%lu" method will work unless size_t is bigger than
>       unsigned long *and* the value being printed exceeds ULONG_MAX, which
>       is unlikely to happen in practice.

Actually, it doesn't. This method breaks as soon as size_t != u_long and
might only work in a few edge cases like the size_t being the last
argument and the byte order is Little Endian. This is worse because IIRC
Microsoft decided to use IL32LLP64 or something similarly fancy.

A more portable approach with autoconf can be found in pkg_install, look
for MISSING_SIZE_T_SUPPORT and the corresponding AC_CHECK_SIZEOF calls
in configure.ac.

Joerg