Re: [PATCH 5/8] util: use gnu_printf format attribute

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On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 10:57:20AM +0400, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 8:03 AM David Gibson <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 11:18:03PM +0400, marcandre.lureau@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > From: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Fix mingw cross-compilation: the use of "%z" format and other requires
> > > mingw ansi stdio.
> >
> > Again, can you connec the dots a bit more as to why this breaks mingw.
> 
> https://sourceforge.net/p/mingw-w64/wiki2/printf%20and%20scanf%20family/
> https://sourceforge.net/p/mingw-w64/wiki2/gnu%20printf/
> 
> dtc uses non-portable formats. Using gnu_printf attributes (for
> warnings) in combination with __USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO allows to build
> for win32.

Ok, include that in the commit message please.

I do wonder if we should be removing the non-portable formats longer
term.  dtc is supposed to be portable, although I think we mostly fail
because no-one really tests on anything other than Linux.  I fixed it
up to build on FreeBSD a while back, but I think it's already
bitrotted to break that again.

> 
> >
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  util.h | 2 +-
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/util.h b/util.h
> > > index ca5cb52..347b305 100644
> > > --- a/util.h
> > > +++ b/util.h
> > > @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
> > >   */
> > >
> > >  #ifdef __GNUC__
> > > -#define PRINTF(i, j) __attribute__((format (printf, i, j)))
> > > +#define PRINTF(i, j) __attribute__((format (gnu_printf, i, j)))
> > >  #define NORETURN     __attribute__((noreturn))
> > >  #else
> > >  #define PRINTF(i, j)
> >
> 

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