On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Bernd Walter wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 07, 1999 at 05:38:48PM +0800, Peter Wemm wrote:
> > "Brian F. Feldman" wrote:
> > > On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Don Lewis wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Aug 6, 3:29pm, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> > > > } Subject: quad_t and portability
> > > > }
> > > > } Hi folks,
> > > > }
> > > > } I want to patch wc(1) so that it uses quad_t instead of u_long. This is
> > > > } necessary if wc(1) is to produce sensible results for files containing
> > > > } more than 4GB of data.
> > > >
> > > > Why not off_t, which should be portable and scale properly with the
> > > > maximum system file size. Then the only problem is figuring a portable
> > > > means of printing the result ...
> > > >
> > >
> > > You can always use off_t with "%qd", (int64_t)foo.
> >
> > But not on the Alpha... int64_t is a long there, and gcc complains unless
> > you use %ld.
> Mmm and long is 32Bit it seems.
> At least that would explain some of the warnings I got when setting MAXDSIZ to
> 128G on alpha.
Long is 64bit, int is 32bit on the alpha. Use u_int64_t to specify the
bitsize.
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