Re: 64 bit numbers vs format strings - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: 64 bit numbers vs format strings
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Msg-id 3933590.1742195365@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: 64 bit numbers vs format strings  (Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>)
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Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> writes:
> This is not really possible.  The <PRIxxx> behavior is baked deeply into 
> the gettext code.  (Also note that you don't only need support in 
> xgettext, which is part of our build system, but also in the runtime 
> library, which we don't control.)

Hmm, I find that comment fairly scary.  How do we know that the
runtime library actually gets this right on every supported platform?
It's surely not because we test it, because we do not.

            regards, tom lane



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