On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Don Lewis wrote:
> On Aug 6, 3:29pm, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> } Subject: quad_t and portability
> }
> } Hi folks,
> }
> } I want to patch wc(1) so that it uses quad_t instead of u_long. This is
> } necessary if wc(1) is to produce sensible results for files containing
> } more than 4GB of data.
>
> Why not off_t, which should be portable and scale properly with the
> maximum system file size. Then the only problem is figuring a portable
> means of printing the result ...
>
You can always use off_t with "%qd", (int64_t)foo.
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