RFC: replace vm_offset_t with uintptr_t and vm_size_t with size_t

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Fri Aug 13 10:43:49 UTC 2010


In message <20100813191149.V12776 at delplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes:
>On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 mdf at FreeBSD.org wrote:

>I prefer to fix printf.  [...] I never
>learned exactly what %I does, but think it should have 2 variations,
>something like a plain %I causing the compiler to rewrite the literal
>format string, replacing %I with the appropriate Standard format, and
>%I<width> for interpretation by the library.

I think printf is fundamentally broken, and "fixing" it by compiler
magic would just galvanize the brokenness for all time.

If you position is that C as a quality language is not salvageable,
then I guess that makes sense, if you still have hopes for ISO-C
coming to their senses, it does not.

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