Re: examples/loadables/finfo.c type problems

[Chet Ramey]

On 9/7/18 5:28 PM, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> Compiling examples/loadables/finfo.c (bash 4.4.23, 5.0-alpha) on
> OpenBSD produces various warnings about ill-matched types:

Yeah, it looks like OpenBSD has some unique type sizes here. Unfortunately,
there aren't portable printf format specifiers for `standard' Unix types.
The easiest fix is to add a bunch of sizeof() checks, or, equivalently,
add those checks to configure and end up with more SIZEOF_xxx defines, but
I haven't done that just for examples.

> 
> I was thinking about how to fix those, but then I noticed existing bad
> casts in the code, e.g.,
> 
>                 printf("%ld\n", (long) st->st_size);
> 
> which potentially truncate values.

Pretty much all the systems bash runs on these days have 64-bit longs.
How big a file do you have? But the fix is the same as above.

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