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

From: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Many pages: Document fixed-width types with ISO C naming
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2022 14:38:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2208251435370.104368@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=whsETo4kc2Ec1Nf4HQY5vKYmRi9et243kyqN4E-=PgKJw@mail.gmail.com>

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