Re: Question regarding sscanf() vs. off_t and similar

[Eric Blake]

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According to Philipp Marek on 9/13/2006 1:05 PM:
> If I'm doing 
>       ino_t ino;
>       char *name;
>       sprintf("%Lu %s", ino, name);
> that works fine for 64bit systems, but writes trash for sizeof(ino_t) == 4.

Gnulib provides umaxtostr.c, which is a convenient way of printing any
integer of unknown width:

char buf[INT_BUFSIZE_BOUND (uintmax_t)];
sprintf("%s %s", umaxtostr(ino, buf), name);

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