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SubjectRe: printk and long long
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Followup to:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0402111655170.17933-100000@gaia.cela.pl>
By author: Maciej Zenczykowski <maze@cela.pl>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, vda wrote:
>
> > The character L specifying that a following e, E, f, g, or G
> > conversion corresponds to a long double argument, or a following
> > d, i, o, u, x, or X conversion corresponds to a long long argument.
> > Note that long long is not specified in ANSI C and therefore
> > not portable to all architectures.
>
> [ personally I'd say screw the un-portable architectures ;) ]
> Long long is here to stay.

long long is C99, so it's *definitely* here to say. The conversion specifier
is "ll" not "L", however.

> Besides if a linux architecture utilises long long in the kernel and
> doesn't support it in printf via %lld then it's horked.
> printf/libc should be fixed instead.
> Maybe that's the problem - the libc support fragment in the kernel tree is
> not up to date on that architecture - maybe the fixes should applied there
> instead - instead of trying to work around the problem, fix the cause.

Indeed. Feel free to steal the code from klibc :)

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