Hi,
On Sun, 2024-08-18 at 11:19 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > I tried defining n in fdisk.c as unsigned int but this caused even more
> > > warnings in other places. Do I have to cast the arguments in sscanf to
> > > unsigned int? It wants "unsigned int *", is it as simple as this or is
> > > there a better solution?
> >
> > In this case, I would just recommend to use the proper format specifiers,
> > see:
>
> "%x" and "%o" always operate on unsigned values. There are no
> format specifiers for signed hexadecimal and octal values, unlike for
> decimal values ("%u" vs. "%d").
OK, so if the numbers are never supposed to be negative, then the variables
should
be declared as unsigned in the first place. I would avoid casting the types as
this can often cause other problems.
Adrian
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