[vHype-discussion] u64 in linux

[H. Peter Anvin]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> Also, in C99, you can print any integer type by casting it to 
> [u]intmax_t and use %j.
> 

By the way, my very firm opinion on this is that we should match and use 
<inttypes.h> as much as possible.  Quite frankly <inttypes.h> actually 
resolves a lot of issues that previous attempts at creating these datatypes -- 
including the one in Linux -- have ignored.  This is a good thing.

Yes, there is ugliness, and I actually would have liked to see the C99 
committee to have adopted the M$ extension %Inn (e.g. %I64d for a 64-bit 
signed decimal integer); to make matters worse GNU used %I for a different 
purpose to it's not even possible to make it a compatible extension.

	-hpa