Subject: Re: [PATCH] Convert size datatype to size_t

From: Martin Koegler <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2017 09:26:13 +0200

On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 09:19:06AM +0200, Martin Koegler wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 11:04:20PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > As https://travis-ci.org/git/git/jobs/262463159 shows, unfortunately
> > it turns out that things are not so simple X-<.  On Linux32, size_t
> > is uint, which is the same size as ulong, but "%lu" is not appropriate
> > for showing a size_t value.
> > 
> > So you are correct to say in the comment under three-dashes that
> > there is much more to change in the codebase.
> 
> I'll post a new version fixing the *printf issues.

What is the correct format specifier for size_t?
Linux has %zu (C99). Is that OK for the GIT codebase?

Regards,
Martin