Re: dsm use of uint64

On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>> Ah. This is because I didn't change the format code used to print the
>> arguments; it's still using UINT64_FORMAT, but the argument is now a
>> Size. What's the right way to print out a Size, anyway?
>
> There isn't a nice one currently. glibc/gcc have %z that automatically
> has the right width, but that's not supported by windows. I've been
> wondering if we shouldn't add support for that just like we have added
> support for %m.
>
>> Should I
>> just try %lu? It seems that sysv_shmem.c uses %lu, but also casts the
>> value to (unsigned long); I could follow that precedent here, if
>> there's no consistency to what format is needed to print a size_t.
>
> Yes, you need a cast like that.

Whee, portability is fun. OK, I changed it to work that way.
Hopefully that'll do the trick.

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