From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
To: Alejandro Colomar <colomar.6.4.3@gmail.com>
Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, linux-man@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/24] inet_net_pton.3: Use 'PRIx32' rather than "%x" when printing 'uint32_t' values
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 11:59:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <04da2934-1a38-2f3f-d2ed-475a0531a1c8@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <050c5399-8f08-5ae6-2546-0cafd055780a@gmail.com>
Hi Alex,
On 9/11/20 11:39 AM, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Hi Michael,
[...]
>> So, I'm in a little bit of doubt about patches 01 and 02. Does
>> this really win us anything? On the one hand, %"PRIx32" is more
>> difficult to read than %x. On the other, does it win us anything
>> in terms of portability? At first glance, the answers seems to me
>> to be "no". Your thoughts?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Michael
>
> On 16-bit systems 'unsigned int' might be shorter than 'uint32_t'.
> There it would make a difference, I guess.
I guess. But even un the 80s, when (I think) htonl() appeared,
I kind of doubt that there were many such systems. I think
I'll skip these patches.
Thanks,
Michael
--
Michael Kerrisk
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2020-09-10 21:13 [PATCH 00/24] Many patches Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-10 21:13 ` [PATCH 01/24] inet_net_pton.3: Use 'PRIx32' rather than "%x" when printing 'uint32_t' values Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-11 9:31 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-11 9:39 ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-11 9:59 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) [this message]
2020-09-12 21:07 ` David Laight
2020-09-10 21:13 ` [PATCH 02/24] endian.3: " Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-11 10:13 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-10 21:13 ` [PATCH 03/24] timerfd_create.2: Use 'PRIxN' macros when printing C99 fixed-width integer types Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-11 8:12 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-10 21:13 ` [PATCH 04/24] eventfd.2: " Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-11 8:13 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-11 12:44 ` AW: " Walter Harms
2020-09-10 21:13 ` [PATCH 05/24] offsetof.3: Use "%zu" rather than "%zd" when printing 'size_t' values Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-11 8:06 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-10 21:13 ` [PATCH 06/24] timer_create.2: Cast to 'unsigned long' rathen than 'long' when printing with "%lx" Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-11 7:57 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-10 21:13 ` [PATCH 07/24] request_key.2: Cast to 'unsigned long' rather " Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-11 7:51 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-10 21:13 ` [PATCH 08/24] add_key.2: " Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-11 7:50 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-10 21:13 ` [PATCH 09/24] clock_getcpuclockid.3: Remove unneeded cast Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-11 7:48 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-11 10:25 ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-11 11:05 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-10 21:13 ` [PATCH 10/24] ioctl_ns.2: " Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-11 7:24 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-11 9:13 ` [PATCH v2 10/24] ioctl_ns.2: Cast to 'unsigned long' rather than 'long' when printing with "%lx" Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-11 9:18 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-10 21:13 ` [PATCH 11/24] stat.2: Remove unneeded cast Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-11 7:25 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-11 9:16 ` [PATCH v2 11/24] stat.2: Cast to 'unsigned long' rather than 'long' when printing with "%lx" Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-11 9:19 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-11 9:34 ` [PATCH v3 11/24] stat.2: wsfix Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-11 9:36 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-10 21:13 ` [PATCH 12/24] getgrent_r.3: Use sizeof() to get buffer size (instead of hardcoding macro name) Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-11 7:17 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-11 12:50 ` AW: " Walter Harms
2020-09-11 19:17 ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-14 9:24 ` AW: " Walter Harms
2020-09-14 9:51 ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-11 14:35 ` Stefan Puiu
2020-09-11 15:28 ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-11 17:21 ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-15 10:03 ` Stefan Puiu
2020-09-23 20:35 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-24 9:35 ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-24 10:04 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-24 10:08 ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-24 11:38 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-24 13:09 ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-29 13:38 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-29 13:57 ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-10 21:13 ` [PATCH 13/24] getpwent_r.3: " Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-11 7:17 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-10 21:13 ` [PATCH 14/24] fread.3: Move ARRAY_SIZE logic into macro Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-11 8:04 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-10 21:13 ` [PATCH 15/24] unix.7: Use sizeof() to get buffer size (instead of hardcoding macro name) Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-11 8:05 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-11 8:07 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-10 21:13 ` [PATCH 16/24] getpwent_r.3: Declare variables with different types in different lines Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-11 6:43 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-10 21:13 ` [PATCH 17/24] get_phys_pages.3: Write 'long' instead of 'long int' Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-11 6:43 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-11 13:07 ` AW: " Walter Harms
2020-09-11 19:24 ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-10 21:13 ` [PATCH 18/24] core.5: Use adequate type Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-11 8:08 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-10 21:13 ` [PATCH 19/24] pthread_setname_np.3: ffix Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-11 7:58 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-11 8:32 ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-11 11:12 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-10 21:13 ` [PATCH 20/24] loop.4: ffix Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-11 6:42 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-10 21:13 ` [PATCH 21/24] aio.7: Use perror() directly Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-11 6:42 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-10 21:13 ` [PATCH 22/24] membarrier.2: Note that glibc does not provide a wrapper Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-11 6:44 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-11 9:33 ` Jakub Wilk
2020-09-11 9:35 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-11 11:42 ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-11 12:58 ` AW: " Walter Harms
2020-09-21 14:36 ` G. Branden Robinson
2020-09-24 8:06 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-27 5:46 ` G. Branden Robinson
2020-09-27 20:05 ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-28 12:52 ` G. Branden Robinson
2020-09-28 13:33 ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-28 13:48 ` G. Branden Robinson
2020-09-28 14:31 ` David Laight
2020-09-28 14:42 ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-29 12:07 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-29 12:06 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-10 21:13 ` [PATCH 23/24] select_tut.2: Use MAX(a, b) from <sys/param.h> Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-11 7:54 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-11 8:46 ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-11 10:03 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-10 21:13 ` [PATCH 24/24] bpf.2: Add missing headers Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-11 9:12 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-11 9:32 ` [PATCH 00/24] Many patches Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
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