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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Suggested method for returning a string from a C program?
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bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
[...]
> This is why it popular to just do:
>
>   typedef long long int i64;
>
> and to use %lld to print, and -LL on literals to force a 64-bit type.

Is it?  I don't recall seeing anyone other than you do that.

> stdint.h et al are just ungainly bolt-ons, not fully supported by the
> language.

No, they're fully supported by the language.  They've been in the ISO
standard since 1999.

> The problem with 'long' manifests itself there too, since on Linux,
> 'int64_t' appears to be commonly defined on top of 'long' for 32-bit
> systems, and 'long long' for 64-bit ones.

If you're writing code for which that's a problem, you probably need to
fix your code.

> So somebody eschewing those ugly macros and using "%ld" to print an
> 'int64_t' type, will find it doesn't work when run on a 64-bit system,
> where "%lld" is needed. Same problem with using '1L' to define an
> int64_t literal.

Somebody writing blatantly non-portable code will run into problems when
they try to port it.

I understand that you dislike <stdint.h>.  That's both perfectly
acceptable and not very interesting.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */