Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] progress: fix progress meters when dealing with lots of work

[Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>]

Thanks for the reviews!

On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 1:33 PM, Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Nov 2017 12:15:58 -0800
> Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> -static int display(struct progress *progress, unsigned n, const char *done)
>> +static int display(struct progress *progress, uint64_t n, const char *done)
>>  {
>>       const char *eol, *tp;
>>
>> @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ static int display(struct progress *progress, unsigned n, const char *done)
>>               if (percent != progress->last_percent || progress_update) {
>>                       progress->last_percent = percent;
>>                       if (is_foreground_fd(fileno(stderr)) || done) {
>> -                             fprintf(stderr, "%s: %3u%% (%u/%u)%s%s",
>> +                             fprintf(stderr, "%s: %3u%% (%"PRIuMAX"/%"PRIuMAX")%s%s",
>>                                       progress->title, percent, n,
>>                                       progress->total, tp, eol);
>
> I think it would be better to cast the appropriate arguments to
> uintmax_t - searching through the Git code shows that we do that in
> several situations. Same for the rest of the diff.

Interesting.  My first inclination was to ask why not just change the
variables to be of type uintmax_t instead of uint64_t (since we're
already changing their types already), and then get rid of the cast.
But I went digging through the source code based on your comment.
Almost all the existing examples in the codebase were off_t and size_t
values; there was only one case with uint64_t...but that one case led
me to commit 5be507fc95 (Use PRIuMAX instead of 'unsigned long long'
in show-index 2007-10-21), and that commit does suggest doing exactly
as you say here.

I'll fix it up.