Re: [gpsd-dev] several messages

[Greg Troxel]

Fred Wright <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, 22 Jul 2016, Greg Troxel wrote:
>> "Gary E. Miller" <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> > We aim to have gpsd run on 32 bit and 64 bit systems.  RasPi's, Odroid's
>> > and BBB's currently are 32 bit only.
>>
>> That really shouldn't be an issue.    32-bit CPUs of various kinds have
>> implemented both uint64_t and double (the longer of the two normal
>> IEEE754 types) for a long time.   The thing to be careful about is to
>
> Yes, as long as it's C99 or later.

I forgot that, but surely C99 is an ok restriction and one we probably
have already.

>> use uint64_t if you want a 64-bit type, and not to assume that that int,
>
> Mostly yes, except that the 64-bit fixed types tend to be "long" on a
> 64-bit platform and "long long" on a 32-bit platform, so if you want to
> use *printf you need a bitness-dependent format string.  I sometimes use
> "long long" directly to avoid that.

PRIu64 :-)  Agreed, but to write portable code with fixed-width types,
one basicallyy has to use the PRI specifiers.  It's a little ugly, but
not hard.

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