[NNTP] 64-bit article counter extension strawman

Matthias Andree matthias.andree at gmx.de
Mon Jul 18 15:46:24 PDT 2005


Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

> Steve Walker <nntp at nntpserver.com> writes:
>
>> The same thing can be said for mandating 32 bit support.  I don't think
>> you can even claim that most software is 32 bit clean as anything that
>> used 'int' is going to break at 31 bits.
>
> And either change requires changing all the printf formats, so there is
> something to what you say.  However, fixing the 31-bit issue only requires
> changing int to unsigned int,

and again all printf from %[l]d to %[l]u...

-- 
Matthias Andree



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