On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 4:59 AM Dimitry Andric <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 8 Jan 2021, at 23:53, Cy Schubert <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > In message <[email protected]
> > om>
> > , Chuck Tuffli writes:
> >> --000000000000c9481f05b86a0c60
> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 11:27 AM Cy Schubert <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> In message <[email protected]>, Cy Schubert
> >>> writes:
> >>>> In message <[email protected]>, Jessica
> >>>> Clarke w
> >>>> rites:
> >>>
> >> ...
> >>
> >>>>> This broke powerpc and powerpc64:
> >>
> >>
> >> Sorry about that. I'll fix this in a bit.
> >>
> >> --chuck
> >
> > Looks like dim@ already did.
> >
> > The time before last I fixed one of these it was pointed out to me
> > privately that when we use %jd that we should also cast to intmax_t or
> > uintmax_t, and that jhb@ told him. This was to future-proof, assuming we'd
> > have 128-bit processors one day.
>
> That is certainly valid for e.g. time_t or other types with a varying
> width, or where you cannot predict the exact width.
>
> But for printing uint64_t and friends, where the width *is* exactly
> specified, I would rather just use the standards-defined PRIu64 and so
> on. Casting will obscure any type mismatches between the printf format
> strings and the actual arguments.
>
> -Dimitry
>

This is technically right, but it's just so ugly and so much harder to
read, especially with multiple format arguments.  IMHO, casting to max
width is acceptable.
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