Re: [PATCH v3] Many pages: Document fixed-width types with ISO C naming

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On Thu, 25 Aug 2022, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> That's a small detail that yes, we've tried to avoid the absolute
> humongous mess that the C standard library has with their horrendous
> 'PRId*' mess, but honestly, it's just a tiny detail.

I've not yet implemented it for glibc or for GCC format checking, but C23 
adds 'wN' format length modifiers so you will be able to e.g. use "%w64d" 
with printf to print an int64_t and won't need those PRI macros any more.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



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