Re: printk and long long

[hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)]

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 :)

	-hpa
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