linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add C99-style constructor macros for specific-sized integers

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Date:	Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:28:07 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
CC:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Arch Mailing List <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Brownell <dbrownell@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add C99-style constructor macros for specific-sized
 integers

Al Viro wrote:
> 
> Oh, for...  It's not as if we _had_ anything better for u64 than %ull and
> convert the argument to unsigned long long for that family.
> 
> Unless you are seriously suggesting the use of vomit-inducing atrocity of
> PRIu64 and constant concatenation in there, that is.  I would rather move
> typechecking for printk-style functions to sparse and tell gcc to STFU
> completely on that class of warnings.  Making it extensible, while we are
> at it - i.e. telling sparse that this conversion is to be used for dma_addr_t,
> etc.

No, I'm not suggesting that.  I'd rather have the Windoze extension of 
%I64u, which of course gcc doesn't recognize.

	-hpa
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