From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2017 16:51:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Convert size datatype to size_t
Message-ID: <xmqqa8387khm.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170809072613.GA20347@mail.zuhause>

Martin Koegler <martin.koegler@chello.at> writes:

> On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 09:19:06AM +0200, Martin Koegler wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 11:04:20PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> > As https://travis-ci.org/git/git/jobs/262463159 shows, unfortunately
>> > it turns out that things are not so simple X-<.  On Linux32, size_t
>> > is uint, which is the same size as ulong, but "%lu" is not appropriate
>> > for showing a size_t value.
>> > 
>> > So you are correct to say in the comment under three-dashes that
>> > there is much more to change in the codebase.
>> 
>> I'll post a new version fixing the *printf issues.
>
> What is the correct format specifier for size_t?
> Linux has %zu (C99). Is that OK for the GIT codebase?

I haven't double checked, but IIRC we cast to uintmax_t and use
PRIuMAX.