svn commit: r253402 - head/tools/regression/aio/aiop

Kevin Lo kevlo at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jul 18 02:04:46 UTC 2013


Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, Kevin Lo wrote:
>
>> Log:
>>  Use PRId64 instead of %gd to print an int64_t.
>
> This is a different printf format error, and a style bug.
>
> Printf format errors:
> commit log: %gd doesn't exist.  You mean %qd
> old: file_size has type off_t, but was printed using %qd.  off_t is only
>      accidentally the same as quad_t
> new: file_size has type off_t, but is printed using %PRId64. off_t is 
> only
>      accidentally the same as int64_t.
>
> Style bug: the PRI* mistake should never be used.
>
> Fix for printf format errors: don't assume anything about off_t except
> its specification that it is a signed integer type.  Convert it to 
> intmax_t
> for printing.
>
> Fix for style bug: use %jd to print the intmax_t.
>
> The PRI* mistake is especially large for intmax_t and uintmax_t. It
> lets you spell %jd as %PRIdMAX.  PRI* is redundant for intmax_t and
> uintmax_t because there is a format letter ('j') for these types. No
> other PRI* has this redundancy bug.  For example, there is no PRI* for
> ssize_t or size_t.  The format letter for these types ('z') handles
> them better, just like the 'j' does for intmax_t and uintmax_t.

Fixed.  Thanks for spotting that.

>
> Bruce
>

     Kevin


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