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Re: Some efforts to get rid of "long" in our codebase

David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> — 2025-11-16T23:37:25Z

On Mon, 10 Nov 2025 at 13:53, David Rowley <dgrowleyml@gmail.com> wrote:
> v2-0001 wraps the format string as suggested by Heikki, v3-0001 uses
> unsigned long long as suggested by Peter.
>
> v2-0002 is updated to use size_t instead of Size, per Heikki
>
> Any further opinions or votes on v2-0001 vs v3-0001?

Nobody seems to feel strongly either way, so I looked again and
thought that using uint64 is nicer as the size of the type is
explicit. We do want a 64-bit type here, not something bigger, which
in theory, long long could be. The less readable format, IMO seemed
like an ok trade-off to be explicit about the type's size.

With that, I pushed the CATCACHE_STATS patch. I also pushed the
MemSet/MemSetAligned one too.

Thanks for looking.

David