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Message-ID: <20220920172011.755587cd@inria.fr>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 17:20:11 +0200
From: Jₑₙₛ Gustedt <jens.gustedt@...ia.fr>
To: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
Cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vfprintf: support C2x %b and %B conversion
specifiers
Rich,
on Tue, 20 Sep 2022 10:46:18 -0400 you (Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>)
wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 04:27:28PM +0200, Jₑₙₛ Gustedt wrote:
> > on Tue, 20 Sep 2022 16:22:36 +0200 you (Jₑₙₛ Gustedt
> > <jens.gustedt@...ia.fr>) wrote:
> >
> > > There is a feature test macro for the maximum width of bit-precise
> > > integers, `BITINT_MAXWIDTH`. It is guaranteed to be at least
> > > `ULLONG_WIDTH` but can (and will) be larger on many platforms.
> >
> > e.g on my ubuntu-nothing-fancy machine I get
> >
> > clang -E -dM -xc /dev/null | grep -i bitint
> > #define __BITINT_MAXWIDTH__ 128
>
> As I understand it, that gives the application knowledge of what
> bit-precise types the compiler can provide to it, but doesn't do
> anything to tell the application what wN modifiers printf can be
> expected to support. If it were required to support wN for
> N==BITINT_MAXWIDTH that would at least be something to go from, but I
> see no such requirement and I'm not sure it's desirable (it means you
> can't let the compiler offer larger BITINT_MAXWIDTH, but would have to
> define it as what libc supports).
>
> I think a separate macro indicating what printf supports is needed to
> solve this problem well.
That's an excellent point. It would be good if we filed a national
body comment for the ballot period to get such a thing in.
Jₑₙₛ
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