Rationalize snprintf.c's handling of "ll" formats.
Although all known platforms define "long long" as 64 bits, it still feels a bit shaky to be using "va_arg(args, int64)" to pull out an argument that the caller thought was declared "long long". The reason it was coded like this, way back in commit 3311c766, was to work around the possibility that the compiler had no type named "long long" --- and, at the time, that it maybe didn't have 64-bit ints at all. Now that we're requiring compilers to support C99, those concerns are moot. Let's make the code clearer and more bulletproof by writing "long long" where we mean "long long". This does introduce a hazard that we'd inefficiently use 128-bit arithmetic to convert plain old integers. The way to tackle that would be to provide two versions of fmtint(), one for "long long" and one for narrower types. Since, as of today, no platforms require that, we won't bother with the extra code for now. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1680.1538587115@sss.pgh.pa.us
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