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Date:      Tue, 16 Jul 2002 05:33:42 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/tail Makefile tail.c
Message-ID:  <20020716052659.G41739-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020715105432.GJ77219@elvis.mu.org>

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On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> * Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> [020715 03:27] wrote:
> > On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> >
> > > Er, both size_t and off_t are pretty much the same one i386 and alpha...
> >
> > Actually, the are quite different.
>
> BUHHH...
>
> size_t is 64 bits on alpha (versus 32 on i386), isn't it?

Yes.

> > > Also, casting enomem of line 257 of reverse.c doesn't fix this warning
> > > which makes no sense...
> > >
> > > Index: reverse.c
> > > -               warnx("warning: %qd bytes discarded", enomem);
> > > +               warnx("warning: %qd bytes discarded", (quad_t)enomem);
> >
> > This makes sense.  %qd is just an alias for %lld, so it unsuitable for
> > printing anything except long longs.  Neither off_t nor quad_t is long
> > long on alphas.
>
> That's just obnoxious. :)
>
> Any chance you can suggest how to clean this up?  The fact that we
> can't compile tail(1) without warnings bugs me.

Just cast off_t's to intmax_t and print them using %jd.  The correct way
to print most other foo_t's is not so clear.  %j[du...] is overkill for
most of them, but might become necessary.

I won't clean up anything related to quad_t's since I want them to go away :-).

Bruce


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