Tom Lane wrote:
Ah so, that explains how come it noticed. BTW, I see that somebody
already changed the array size to 16 bytes in HEAD --- so it's just
the back branches that need fixing.
Um, is that really considered a fix??? We all know that there's no
guarantee at all, even in ANSI C, that unsigned int isn't bigger than
32 bits, right? There are still some weird architectures out there.
Whenever I need to print some integer x, I use code like this:
char buf[1 + sizeof(x) * CHAR_BIT / 3]
I let the compiler figure out the length needed to print in octal,
and use that as a (slight) over-estimate of the length for decimal.
As a bonus, the type of x can be changed without having to track down
this kind of crap.
Alternatively, the code in question could just cast to one of the
newer fixed-length int types, like int32_t, although that has its own
problems.
Sorry for the pedantry ...
- John D. Burger
MITRE
