Re: Large Files Support for Wget

[David Fritz]

IIUC, GNU coreutils uses uintmax_t to store large numbers relating to the file 
system and prints them with something like this:

  char buf[INT_BUFSIZE_BOUND (uintmax_t)];
  printf (_("The file is %s octets long.\n"), umaxtostr (size, buf));
where umaxtostr() has the following prototype:

char *umaxtostr (uintmax_t, char *);

and it returns its second argument (the address of the buffer provided by the 
caller) so it can be used easily as an argument in printf calls.