Re: [commit: ghc] master: define own version of PRIdPTR on platform where its not available (71f7ab6)

Gabriel Dos Reis <[email protected]>
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On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Ian Lynagh <[email protected]> wrote:
> Repository : ssh://darcs.haskell.org//srv/darcs/ghc
>
> On branch  : master
>
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/changeset/71f7ab6a05448e48a3b5741bb8a5ef57701e9c70
>
>>---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> commit 71f7ab6a05448e48a3b5741bb8a5ef57701e9c70
> Author: Karel Gardas <[email protected]>
> Date:   Thu Nov 8 22:04:44 2012 +0100
>
>     define own version of PRIdPTR on platform where its not available
>
>     Note that PRIdPTR is considered as linux-ism so it's not available on platforms
>     like Solaris, although some other free Unix(-like) OSes apparently supports
>     it too.

The log comment is not correct.
In fact, it is ISO C99 standard; some old proprietary C system headers
not have it (13 years later) but it is not linux-ism.

-- Gaby
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