From: "Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Miller@sudo.ws>
Subject: Re: inttypes.h?
To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Cc: gameoftrees@openbsd.org
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 09:51:38 -0600

On Sat, 26 Sep 2020 17:41:58 +0200, Christian Weisgerber wrote:

> The diff below
>
> * ... casts time_t and off_t values to long long, so they are
>   guaranteed to match the %lld format specifier.  On OpenBSD that
>   happens to be the case, on FreeBSD it's a mess that varies by
>   architecture.  I don't know if that's acceptable, but I see similar
>   casts in ssh.
>   (Style? Second change in got_object_commit_create() below.)

I think this is about the best you can do.  One alternative is to
cast to intmax_t instead of long long, though I don't think it
really matters.

> * ... switches the number in parse.y from int64_t to long long,
>   since it is assigned to from strtonum(), passed to parseport()'s
>   long long parameter, and printed with %lld anyway.

That makes sense to me and argues for using long long above.

 - todd