Forwarding upstream response: On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 12:24:23PM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > imho casting of print arguments should be removed, and string formatting > should > be changed from > > '%u' (unsigned int) into '%ju', where > > j A following integer conversion corresponds to an intmax_t or > uintmax_t argument.
On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 11:10:53AM -0400, rick reynolds wrote: > For printing it was suggested to switch away from use of %u when > printing sizes, but that is something that is not appropriate, > since we wanted the library to work with very old compilers. The > large number print formats seem to require C99. > > Anyway, so I did not make changes for that. > > It might be worth noting that this is the main reason that I > required C99 in the GIFTI C library (GIFTI is the surface format > under NIFTI). C99 introduced long long and %lld. We might nevertheless want to have that as a permanent patch in Debian, but I'm not to keen on doing it. Michael -- GPG key: 1024D/3144BE0F Michael Hanke http://mih.voxindeserto.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
