In a commit message, Ross Harvey <ross@netbsd.org> writes:
> It's unfortunate that off_t and quad_t don't print with %q. I wonder
> what would happen if alpha changed these from long -> long long? It's
> the same actual size in bits either way.

%q (and %ll) is 'long long'.  Right now, on alpha, 'long long' is 64
bits, but i can see reason for it being, say 128 at some point in the
future.

Really, this is no worse than the fact that %l doesn't print ints w/o
warning, and %d doesn't print longs w/o warning on 32-bit machines.
It may be annoying, but really it's "right."

In general, when using a typedef, if you want the right behaviour, you
have to cast.  It's a bummer, but that's the way of C.


cgd
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