Re: human-readable swap partition sizes with pstat -sh

From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek (pjd_at_FreeBSD.org)
Date: 01/06/05

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To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>

    On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 11:57:19AM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote:
    +> I'd argue that we might want to replace the int64_t in humanize_number
    +> with intmax_t since that wouldn't change the ABI (or API due to implicit
    +> casts), but would mean we wouldn't have to add a humanize_number128
    +> later if some architecture grows 128-bit ints for some reason or
    +> another.

    I like intmax_t also much better than int64_t, but I took it from NetBSD
    and they got int64_t there. Anyway, I think we don't have to be 100%
    compatible here and I'll look what can be done. 

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