Re: [PATCH 6/9] virtio_mmio: Cast &resources[1].start toâunsigned int *â to rid compilerwarning

From: Pawel Moll
Date: Mon Nov 05 2012 - 08:00:51 EST


On Mon, 2012-11-05 at 08:21 +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> > > processed = sscanf(str, "@%lli:%u%n:%d%n",
> > > - &base, &resources[1].start, &consumed,
> > > + &base, (unsigned int *)&resources[1].start, &consumed,
> > > &vm_cmdline_id, &consumed);
> >
> > This suppresses a valid warning, leaving our code no less wrong than
> > before. But now it's silently wrong!
> >
> > Do you want to try again?
>
> For sure I'll try again.
>
> How does `s/%u/%p/` suit?

sscanf doesn't do "%p"... The only reasonable way of fixing this is a
intermediate local variable - will post a patch in a second.

Thanks for spotting this!

PaweÅ


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