bug#8435: misuse of error ("...%d...", ...) on 64-bit hosts

[Andy Moreton]

On Thu 07 Apr 2011, Paul Eggert wrote:

> Attached is the patch I'd like to install, after more testing.
>
> This patch affects the Windows build by removing src/doprnt.c.
>
> This patch assumes that vsnprintf works.  This is true of the oldest,
> cruftiest host I could get my hands on (a Solaris 8 box; Sun itself
> stopped fixing Solaris 8 more than two years ago).  However, if Emacs
> is still supposed to run on even-older (roughly, pre-1999) platforms
> that lack vsnprintf then I can add the gnulib vsnprintf module, which
> will provide a vsnprintf replacement for these ancient hosts.  I
> assume that vsnprintf works on Windows, so the presence or absence of
> the vsnprintf module shouldn't matter for Windows.

You define a pEd macro to be inserted in the format string to print an
appropriately integer sized type. Would it not be better to use a C99
print format macro name from <inttypes.h> ?

It may be necesary to provide the macros where <inttypes.h> is not
available, but at least the macro names are well known.

    AndyM