Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:48:12 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/24] types: create <asm-generic/int-*.h> |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> I have to admit to liking the Windows extension %I64u for this kind of stuff. >> Unfortunately gcc/glibc decided to use I for internationalized digits instead >> :( > > The sad part is that this is purely a gcc thing. We could easily do the > right thing in the kernel vsnprintf stuff, but then we'd have to drop the > nice format warnings from gcc ;( >
Yes, that's the fundamental problem.
There isn't even a flag for gcc to set this behaviour, with the result that any code compiled with MinGW (gcc for Win32) spews warnings like crazy.
-hpa
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