Re: [PATCH] lpfc: use %zd format string for size_t

[Vineet Gupta]

On 10/28/2016 02:52 PM, Vineet Gupta wrote:
> On 10/28/2016 02:44 PM, Vineet Gupta wrote:
>> This is configuration specific, and something caused your compiler to
>>> be built assuming that size_t is unsigned long, while the kernel
>>> headers are assuming it should be unsigned int.
> 
> So yes this seems to be target specific gcc thing
> 
> for ARC 4.8
> 
> #define PTRDIFF_TYPE "int"
> 
> ARM
> 
> #ifndef PTRDIFF_TYPE
> #define PTRDIFF_TYPE (TARGET_AAPCS_BASED ? "int" : "long int")
> #endif
> 
> ARC gcc 6.2
> 
> #undef PTRDIFF_TYPE
> #define PTRDIFF_TYPE "long int"

Actually we need to adjust SIZE_TYPE (unsigned int) and PTRDIFF_TYPE (int) in the
gcc 6.x to fix this issue. And that is exactly what ARC gcc 4.8 have.