| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, Oliver Jowett <oliver(at)opencloud(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: cast pid_t to int when using *printf |
| Date: | 2004-10-09 02:42:47 |
| Message-ID: | 200410090242.i992glu02408@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> writes:
> > I guess it would be safest to use %ld and cast pid_t to long. Of course,
> > this seems a little paranoid -- is there actually a system with
> > sizeof(pid_t) != 4?
>
> Traditionally PIDs fit in 16 bits, let alone 32. I'd recommend that we
> standardize on casting pid_t to int for printing purposes;
Done.
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