RE: [HACKERS] Re: Postgres for Sunos 4.1.4

> I have just rejiggered the int8 support so that it only depends on
> snprintf instead of sprintf and sscanf.  The interesting thing about
> this is that we have our own version of snprintf that we use if the
> platform's C library hasn't got snprintf/vsnprintf --- and our version
> knows about %lld.  So if you have a compiler that offers 
> working 64-bit
> arithmetic, you don't need any help from the C library to 
> make int8 go.

This solution will work also on the Win32 port, beacuse the Cygwin libs
don't have vsscanf that supports 64-bit ints. Great.

			Dan