[Ocfs2-devel] Request to remove -Wfno-format

Rusty Lynch rusty at linux.co.intel.com
Fri Feb 13 16:06:54 CST 2004


On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 02:15:37PM -0800, Manish Singh wrote:
<snip>
> Well, I really meant "%Zu". 'z' is a modifier that was introduced in C99,
> but it's only in very recent 2.4.x printk implementations, i.e. none of 
> current AS 2.1, EL3, or UL have it, which means we can't use it. 'Z' is
> GNU extension (that's deprecated now in favor of the C99 modifier) that
> *is* in all the printks we need to support, so we should use that.
> __attribute__ format should know about both anyway.

Any ideas on cleanly printing sector_t? In 2.4 it was always a u32, now it
is architecture dependent (u32 by default but set to u64 by most architectures
including ia32 and ia64.)




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