Re: printk and long long

[wdebruij@dds.nl]

Quoting Måns Rullgård <mru@kth.se>:

> 
> And how do you plan to make sense of the printed value?
> 

perhaps I was a bit quick with replying. As others have pointed out, you should
specify the precision to be able to glue the two parts together. Ideally, this
should be done using a "%.8lx%.8lx", since the length of the variable in hex is
static. Unfortunately, it seems %ld is requested, in which case "%ld*(2^32)+%ld"
works (for humans), but is obviously not great.

I guess you'll need a number of extra tests (if lower 32bits > 1 billion ..) and
specific printk statements if the output should be shown as a correct 10-base
number. 

I don't know, it depends on the specific use-case, really. If at all possible, I
would stick to the hex-representation.