Re: [PATCH] tools/perf/util/*.c: Use "%zd" output format for size_t type

From: Joe Perches
Date: Tue Feb 25 2020 - 18:04:17 EST


On Tue, 2020-02-25 at 14:39 +0800, Xiao Yang wrote:
> Avoid the following errors when building perf:
> -----------------------------------------------
> util/session.c: In function 'perf_session__process_compressed_event':
> util/session.c:91:11: error: format '%ld' expects argument of type 'long int', but argument 4 has type 'size_t {aka unsigned int}' [-Werror=format=]
> pr_debug("decomp (B): %ld to %ld\n", src_size, decomp_size);
[]
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/session.c b/tools/perf/util/session.c
[]
> @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ static int perf_session__process_compressed_event(struct perf_session *session,
> session->decomp_last = decomp;
> }
>
> - pr_debug("decomp (B): %ld to %ld\n", src_size, decomp_size);
> + pr_debug("decomp (B): %zd to %zd\n", src_size, decomp_size);

likely better as %zu, etc...