[LLVMdev] Say hi to VMKit: JVM/LLVM, CLI/LLVM

[Chris Lattner]

On Mar 27, 2008, at 2:18 PM, Eric Gouriou wrote:
>
> On Mar 26, 2008, at 12:23 PM, Török Edwin wrote:
> [...]
>>> 2) ISO C++ does not support %jd. x86_64 does not know about %lld?
>>>
>>
>> It does, but gcc gives a warning, if I use %lld I get a warning on
>> x86_64, if I %ld I get a warning on x86-32.
>> int64_t is long int on x86-64. However sizeof(long int) ==  
>> sizeof(long
>> long int), so I don't know why gcc insists it is wrong.
>> I only found %jd which doesn't give warnings on either:

>
>  To print a int64_t value, use PRId64 from inttypes.h if you can.
>
> #include <inttypes.h>
>
> int64_t x = ...;
> printf("x=%"PRId64"\n", x);
>
>  It's ugly at first, but portable (provided inttypes.h ...).

Unfortunately, inttypes.h isn't portable either :(.

I'd suggest:

   printf("%lld", (long long)x);

which is guaranteed to work and is fine on any system where  
sizeof(int64_t) == sizeof(long long).  LLVM already makes lots of  
assumptions that this is true already, so one more won't hurt.

-Chris