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Date:      Sat, 19 Jun 2004 09:58:43 +0100
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/pf/pfctl pfctl_parser.c
Message-ID:  <200406190958.43804.dfr@nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040619071754.GA73529@VARK.homeunix.com>
References:  <200406171523.i5HFNpjs011498@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040618143127.GP9228@elvis.mu.org> <20040619071754.GA73529@VARK.homeunix.com>

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On Saturday 19 June 2004 08:17, David Schultz wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 18, 2004, Maxime Henrion wrote:
> > Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> > > Max Laier <mlaier@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > > >   Log:
> > > >   Fix printing of u_int64_t with a cast to unsigned long long.
> > >
> > > The correct fix is to cast it to uintmax_t and print it with %ju.
> >
> > Using %llu and a cast to (unsigned long long) is as correct as
> > using uintmax_t and %ju because the C99 standard says that "long
> > long" is at least 64-bit wide.  We generally use {u,}intmax_t in
> > FreeBSD because it works in more cases, but in that case we can't
> > because OpenBSD doesn't have intmax_t.
>
> /me wonders how much backpedaling we'll wind up doing on the
> uintmax_t casts when someone decides to add uint128_t to gcc
> and uintmax_t becomes painfully slow on 32-bit arches.  ;-)

Gcc already has uint128_t. I use it all the time on PS2 and something 
like it is used on x86 for SSE...



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