Hi List!
We currently still recommend to use the PRI...64 macros when supplying
64bit values in the format string to printf like functions.
This was needed as Win32 MSVC like printf (sprintf, snprintf, ...) and
such functions need e.g. %I64d to format such a 64 bit value while gcc
uses %lld for this.
As we now recommend to use the corresponding functions from the glib
(e.g. g_snprintf) this situation changed - these functions takes both
%I64d and %lld :-)
What makes things worse is that the glib functions have a bug when using
I64X and I64x (see bugzilla 1025) - in effect I've changed that PRIx64
macros a while ago to simply also use the gcc like %llx :-)
As a conclusion: the best way to handle this IMHO is to simply use %lld
and alike for all printf like function format strings. This should work
on all platforms and we could just delete the PRI...64 macros and
replace each appearance with it's %lld replacement.
This makes usage of the glib printf like functions mandatory, but this
is the way we recommend it anway ...
Any comments?
Regards, ULFL
