Re: Use of %td in printf

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2019 01:04:33 -0700
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > AFAIR, we require a C99 compiler, but not a C99 C library.
> 
> That was a while ago. These days it's safe to assume %td and Emacs has been 
> doing so for some time without any problems.

Thanks, I just wanted to be sure.  I don't really know of any platform
where this could cause problems.

> I should mention that the situation is more complicated than "we require a 
> C99 
> compiler". Emacs does not require full support for C99, either in the 
> compiler 
> or the library. (If it did, we couldn't use Microsoft's C compiler, which 
> does 
> not support all of C99.)

We don't support building with the Microsoft compiler for quite some
time now.  The MS-Windows port is built using GCC, not MSVC.

> While we're on the topic, one of these days I was thinking of removing 
> printmax_t and related types and macros from src/lisp.h, as %jd is 
> considerably 
> simpler and should be universal by now. Even when I added that stuff back in 
> 2011 the concern about portability to old C libraries lacking %jd support was 
> mostly theoretical; I think the last holdout was Solaris 8, which Oracle 
> stopped 
> supporting in 2012. Nowadays those pre-C99 libraries are museum pieces and we 
> can drop the printmax_t hacks.

If all the platforms we care about support that, fine.