Re: [RFC] convert a host address to a string

[Kai Tietz <Kai dot Tietz at onevision dot com>]

Joel,

Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> wrote on 09.01.2009 10:57:05:

> Kai,
> 
> > > > Please be aware that %llx isn't valid for x86_64 windows (as it 
isn't 
> > for 
> > > > 32-bit standard). The options 'I' or 'I64' have to be used for
> > > > those targets (at least for _WIN64).
> > > 
> > > Are you serious?  Wow, that's unbelievable.  %llx is defined by ISO
> > > C99, and you're saying that even the 64-bit editions of Windows that
> > > were introduced several years after the standard was ratified (and
> > > almost a decade after the first drafts were circulated) don't
> > > implement that bit of the standard?
> > > 
> > 
> > Sadly, yes. IIRC they implemented it in their newer runtimes, but it 
> > didn't made it into msvcrt.dll even on 64-bit systems.
> 
> I don't doubt that you are right, but I was wondering whether configure
> was (apparently incorrectly) defining PRINTF_HAS_LONG_LONG.
> 
>   | #include <stdio.h>
>   | 
>   | int
>   | main (void)
>   | {
>   |   long long addr = 0xdeadbeeffeedfaceLL;
>   | 
>   |   printf ("addr = 0x%llx.\n", addr);
>   |   return 0;
>   | }
> 
> I compiled the program above on our x86_64 Vista, and it compiled and
> worked like a charm. The check in configure is actually of the same
> nature.
> 
> On 32bit systems:
>   - XP: PRINTF_HAS_LONG_LONG is not defined.
>   - Vista: All works fine.
> 
> I don't have access to an x86_64 XP install, but I'm going to make
> a guess that PRINTF_HAS_LONG_LONG is not defined there.
> 
> What I will do is send a patch that implements what Mark suggested.
> This should work on all our supported platforms, with the addition
> of x86_64 Vista, but to the exclusion of x86_64 XP. I am OK with
> the idea of adding a extra #if WIN64_ branch that allows us to build
> on x86_64 XP, but you'll have to convince others as well.

That makes sense. I use at work XP64, and there is for sure no '%llx' 
support. I will cross check this this evening at home on Vista64.
The bad thing here is if you would enable -Wformat, you get by gcc a 
warning about the double-(el)l ...

Cheers,
Kai

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