Jeff Hostetler <g...@jeffhostetler.com> writes:
> I defined that routine to take a uint64_t because I wanted to
> pass a nanosecond value received from getnanotime() and that's
> what it returns.
Hmph, but the target format does not have different representation
of inttypes in different sizes, no?
I personally doubt that we would benefit from having a group of
functions (i.e. format_int{8,16,32,64}_to_json()) that callers have
to choose from, depending on the exact size of the integer they want
to serialize. The de-serializing side would be the same story.
Even if the variable a potential caller of the formetter is a sized
type that is different from uintmax_t, the caller shouldn't have to
add an extra cast.
Am I missing some obvious merit for having these separate functions
for explicit sizes?
