[PATCH v3] Many pages: Document fixed-width types with ISO C naming

Joseph Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Thu Aug 25 14:38:40 GMT 2022


On Thu, 25 Aug 2022, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> That's a small detail that yes, we've tried to avoid the absolute
> humongous mess that the C standard library has with their horrendous
> 'PRId*' mess, but honestly, it's just a tiny detail.

I've not yet implemented it for glibc or for GCC format checking, but C23 
adds 'wN' format length modifiers so you will be able to e.g. use "%w64d" 
with printf to print an int64_t and won't need those PRI macros any more.

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com


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