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

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Message-Id: <20081021221116.dd56244b.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Date:	Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:11:16 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	greg@...ah.com, sfr@...b.auug.org.au, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for October 21 (printk format warnings)

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

> From: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
> 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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