Blue Swirl <blauwir...@gmail.com> writes: > On 5/16/10, Stefan Weil <w...@mail.berlios.de> wrote: >> Am 15.05.2010 22:49, schrieb Blue Swirl: >> >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > With this mingw32 compiler: >> > >> > $ i586-mingw32msvc-gcc -v >> > Using built-in specs. >> > Target: i586-mingw32msvc >> > Configured with: [...] >> > build will not succeed because formats %zd, %zu, %hh, %lld, %llx and >> > %llu are not known by the compiler. >> > >> > Any %ll* use is clearly a bug, we have PRI*64 macros just for this >> purpose. >> > >> > For %hh and %z there may be better ways than these patches. >> > >> > With the patches I can build working Win32 binaries and there are no >> warnings. [...] >> It's a compiler bug that the compiler does not know these format strings. >> The code works nevertheless (at least with mingw libraries which are >> not too old) because the format strings are interpreted by the C runtime >> library. >> >> Is it worth changing a lot of files when we can expect a newer mingw >> compiler version which works correctly for standard format strings? > > When and if that version becomes popular, PRIz* and the %hh hack could > be removed or a compiler check could be added. But I don't think it's > worth it, the macros are easy to use.
They're also ugly as sin.
