Re: cast pid_t to int when using *printf

From: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
To: Oliver Jowett <oliver(at)opencloud(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: cast pid_t to int when using *printf
Date: 2004-09-24 10:34:24
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On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 20:31, Oliver Jowett wrote:
> pid_t on the Solaris/sparc system is a long (but both int and long are
> 32 bits). Some experimentation shows that gcc is happy with a %ld format
> specifier. But compiling the same code on a Linux/x86 system makes gcc
> complain when applying %ld to pid_t, so we will need a cast there either
> way.

I guess it would be safest to use %ld and cast pid_t to long. Of course,
this seems a little paranoid -- is there actually a system with
sizeof(pid_t) != 4?

-Neil

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