Writeln and longint_(re)

Thu, 9 Oct 1997 16:47:58 +0200

Kevin A. Foss wrote:

> Hello,
> 	In my process of getting gpc to compile under OS/2, I've been
> trying some example code and Peter recommended trying stuff like
> writing longints to see if the new features in 971001 were working. 
> Well, I tried the following:
> -=-=-=-=-
> program testlongint(output);
> 
> Var
>         i : longint;
> 
> begin
>         i := 1;
>         writeln(i);
> end.
> =-=-=-=-=
> It compiles fine, but for output I get simply:
> 
> [C:\kevin\pascal\gpc-test]longint
> qd
> 
> Any ideas as to what might be going wrong?  From looking through the
> new RTS code, 'qd' is the format that is used for longints,
> (RTS-WRTI.C) but I don't know what the 'q' is supposed to do as it
> isn't a standard printf() style format (AFAIK) and I don't see code to
> parse 'q' in vasprintf.c either -- which I believe is the function that
> eventually gets called. 
 
I feared this would cause problems somewhere... obviously there
isn't a portable way to write "long long"s in C. :-(

I'll see what I can do about it. In the worst case, I'll have to
rewrite the output of integers completely which I planned to do
(later) anyway...

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