Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:20:20 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: linux-next: Tree for October 21 (printk format warnings) | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:11:16 -0700
> On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:07:54 -0700 (PDT) David Miller wrote: > > > From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> > > Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:01:42 -0700 > > > > > What's the expected modifier for "size_t" to work on all arches? > > > > Put "%Z" in front of the output specifier you want to use, > > for example %Zd for decimal and %Zx for hex. > > > > > Same goes for the result of "size_of()", what should we use there? Or > > > are we just required to always cast things? > > > > Sizeof should use the same as above. > > I know that Alan recently merged a patch with %Zd instead of %zd, > but the ANSI spec says to use %z, so I thought that we were going with > that moreso than %Z... ??
I think you're right.
My old fingers must do %Z automatically because gcc a long time ago didn't recognize %z and warned. That should be such an old gcc problem as to be irrelevant these days.
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