Re: linux-next: Tree for October 21 (printk format warnings)

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Wed Oct 22 2008 - 01:11:41 EST


On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:07:54 -0700 (PDT) David Miller wrote:

> From: Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>
> 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... ??

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~Randy
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