Re: Cannot find a working 64-bit integer type on Illumos

On 18/04/2024 23:29, Thomas Munro wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 8:47 PM Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> wrote:
>> I'm not sure I understand the problem here.  Do you mean that in theory
>> a platform's PRId64 could be something other than "l" or "ll"?
> 
> Yes.  I don't know why anyone would do that, and the systems I checked
> all have the obvious definitions, eg "ld", "lld" etc.  Perhaps it's an
> acceptable risk?  It certainly gives us a tidier result.

Could we have a configure check or static assertion for that?

> For discussion, here is a variant that fully embraces <inttypes.h> and
> the PRI*64 macros.

Looks good to me.

Personally, I find "PRId64" pretty unreadable. "INT64_MODIFIER" wasn't 
nice either, though, and following standards is good, so I'm sure I'll 
get used to it.

They're both less readable than INT64_FORMAT and "%lld", which we use in 
most places, though. Perhaps "%lld" and casting the arguments to "long 
long" would be more readable in the places where this patch replaces 
INT64_MODIFIER with PRI*64, too.

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