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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | bug#47085: du: why does 'usage' show prefixes 'Z' or 'Y' if they are disallowed? |
Date: | Fri, 12 Mar 2021 11:46:52 -0800 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.7.1 |
On 3/11/21 8:53 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
Why are those suffixes listed as valid under the program 'usage' and manpage, when they are automatically disallowed?
They are valid if your computer has wide-enough integers. As far as I know no platform supports Y and only one or two supports Z, but the documentation is future-proofing.
Conversely, if you're running on a really small computer that doesn't even support 64-bit integers, even 'T' is too wide.
I doubt whether it's worth complicating the manual for this minor detail, as the current diagnostic "'Y" too large" is accurate as far as it goes.
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