Re: [PATCH] http: fix some printf format warnings on 32-bit builds

> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Ramsay Jones
> <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com> wrote:
>> On 11/11/15 01:22, Eric Sunshine wrote:
>>> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 7:23 PM, Ramsay Jones
>>> <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com> wrote:
>>> My machine is 64-bit, though, so perhaps it's misleading to
>>> characterize this as a fix for 32-bit builds. In particular, off_t is
>>> 'long long' on this machine, so it complains about the "long" format
>>> specifier.
>>
>> ... but this seems to imply that sizeof(long) is 4 on your machine, right?
>> (on x86_64 linux it's 8, which is why I hadn't noticed before).
> 
> This code on my Mac:
> 
>     printf("sizeof(long)=%zu\n", sizeof(long));
>     printf("sizeof(long long)=%zu\n", sizeof(long long));
>     printf("sizeof(off_t)=%zu\n", sizeof(off_t));
> 
> produces:
> 
>     sizeof(long)=8
>     sizeof(long long)=8
>     sizeof(off_t)=8
> 
> The fact that 'long' and 'long long' happen to be the same size (in
> this case) is immaterial. What is important is that the code is just
> wrong to be using the "%l" specifier for 'long' when the actual
> datatype is 'long long' (which is what 'off_t' is under-the-hood in
> this case).