From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757892AbYDYTp0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:45:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752261AbYDYTpL (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:45:11 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:56531 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754824AbYDYTpK (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:45:10 -0400 Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:45:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: "H. Peter Anvin" cc: Matthew Wilcox , Jan Engelhardt , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Arch Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/24] types: create In-Reply-To: <48123325.30003@zytor.com> Message-ID: References: <1209078352-7593-1-git-send-email-hpa@zytor.com> <1209078352-7593-2-git-send-email-hpa@zytor.com> <1209078352-7593-3-git-send-email-hpa@zytor.com> <20080425185251.GL14990@parisc-linux.org> <48122CB0.7020003@zytor.com> <20080425192858.GM14990@parisc-linux.org> <48123325.30003@zytor.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > I have to admit to liking the Windows extension %I64u for this kind of stuff. > Unfortunately gcc/glibc decided to use I for internationalized digits instead > :( The sad part is that this is purely a gcc thing. We could easily do the right thing in the kernel vsnprintf stuff, but then we'd have to drop the nice format warnings from gcc ;( Linus