[PATCH] 2.3 %qu vs. %llu on *BSD

[Brenden Conte]

Linux printf page:

"q (‘quad’.  BSD  4.4  and Linux libc5 only. Don’t use.)  This is a
synonym for ll."

... and further down under 'Conforming to'...

"Linux  libc5  knows  about  the  five  C standard flags and the ’ flag,
locale, %m$ and *m$.  It knows about the  length  modifiers  h,l,L,Z,q,
but accepts L and q both for long doubles and for long long integers
(this is a bug).  It no longer recognizes FDOU, but adds a new 
conversion character m, which outputs strerror(errno)."

and finally the linux scanf:

q      equivalent to L.  This flag does not exist in ANSI C.

...and there you have it.

I was curious, so i thought i'd post my findings for linux boxen (FC2). 

-Brenden

On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 21:30, John Capo wrote:
> FreeBSD 4.X printf() and friends support the %llu format.  scanf()
> and friends do not.  I suspect this is true of most BSD-4.4 derived
> systems.  I don't know what ANSI says about this issue.
> 
> One way to fix it is attached.  My autoconf foo is lacking so I
> just jammed a #define into configure.in where O_DSYNC is defined
> for BSD systems.  I doubt this will work in all cases.
> 
> John Capo
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Brenden Conte
System Programmer, C&CT
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
(518)276-2540

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