How to printf uint64_t? Fails with: "spurious trailing ‘%’ in format"

Question

The ISO C99 standard specifies that these macros must only be defined if explicitly requested.

#define __STDC_FORMAT_MACROS
#include <inttypes.h>

... now PRIu64 will work

When compiling memcached under Centos 5.x i got the same problem.

The solution is to upgrade gcc and g++ to version 4.4 at least.

Make sure your CC/CXX is set (exported) to right binaries before compiling.

Since you've included the C++ tag, you could use the {fmt} library and avoid the PRIu64 macro and other printf issues altogether:

#include <fmt/core.h>

int main() {
  uint64_t ui64 = 90;
  fmt::print("test uint64_t : {}\n", ui64);
}

The formatting facility based on this library is proposed for standardization in C++20: P0645.

Disclaimer: I'm the author of {fmt}.