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| author | Alejandro Colomar <colomar.6.4.3@gmail.com> | 2020-09-29 12:30:25 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2020-09-29 13:43:03 +0200 |
| commit | 1d0046bf677d6ee44ce45e9afc866eeaa7405853 (patch) | |
| tree | a2aa012d6a7485b6aa3de0fee718f90b758e4bd2 /man7 | |
| parent | 333e127b947005169bfc5a7a487bad5c7a5a13d5 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-1d0046bf677d6ee44ce45e9afc866eeaa7405853.tar.gz | |
system_data_types.7: Add 'uintmax_t'
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <colomar.6.4.3@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man7')
| -rw-r--r-- | man7/system_data_types.7 | 55 |
1 files changed, 55 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man7/system_data_types.7 b/man7/system_data_types.7 index d6fc54d3f3..0ce718b145 100644 --- a/man7/system_data_types.7 +++ b/man7/system_data_types.7 @@ -1172,6 +1172,61 @@ See also: .BR getpwnam (2), .BR credentials (7) .RE +.\"------------------------------------- uintmax_t --------------------/ +.TP +.I uintmax_t +.RS +.br +Include: +.IR <stdint.h> . +Alternatively, +.IR <inttypes.h> . +.PP +An unsigned integer type +capable of representing any value of any unsigned integer type +supported by the implementation. +According to the C language standard, it shall be +capable of storing values in the range [0, +.BR UINTMAX_MAX ]. +.PP +The macro +.B UINTMAX_C +.\" TODO: Document UINT*_C(3) +expands its argument to an integer constant of type +.IR uintmax_t . +.PP +The length modifier for +.I uintmax_t +for the +.BR printf (3) +and the +.BR scanf (3) +families of functions is +.BR j ; +resulting commonly in +.B %ju +or +.B %jx +for printing +.I uintmax_t +values. +.PP +Bugs: +.I uintmax_t +is not large enough to represent values of type +.I unsigned __int128 +in implementations where +.I unsigned __int128 +is defined and +.I unsigned long long +is less than 128 bits wide. +.PP +Conforming to: C99 and later; POSIX.1-2001 and later. +.PP +See also the +.I intmax_t +type in this page. +.RE .\"------------------------------------- va_list ----------------------/ .TP .I va_list |