[vHype-discussion] u64 in linux

[H. Peter Anvin]

Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Freedag 15 Oktober 2004 17:53, Jimi Xenidis wrote:
> 
>>BTW: a thread starts here:
>>   http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0402.3/1428.html
>>
>>After a whole lot of clicking it looks like a dropped patch.
>>
>>I guess its the cast, it seems thats the linux way at the moment.
> 
> 
> Yes, I think there have been some patches to drivers going in that
> direction.
> An alternative if the warning is in your own code is to use
> 'unsigned long long' or a user defined 'uval64' directly in
> the declaration instead of 'u64'.
> 
> C99 also mandates that the macro PRIu64 contains the correct
> format string for uint64_t (which afaik is always the same as u64).
> It's currently not defined in linux, but could perhaps be added.
> 

Also, in C99, you can print any integer type by casting it to [u]intmax_t and 
use %j.

	-hpa