Re: [PATCH 2/2 jk/war-on-sprintf] compat/mingw.c: remove printf format warning

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On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 08:02:52AM +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote:

> 5096d490 (convert trivial sprintf / strcpy calls to xsnprintf) converted
> two sprintf calls. Now GCC warns that "format '%u' expects argument of
> type 'unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'long unsigned int'".
> Instead of changing the format string, use a variable of type unsigned
> in place of the typedef-ed type DWORD, which hides that it is actually an
> unsigned long.
> 
> There is no correctness issue with the old code because unsigned long and
> unsigned are always of the same size on Windows, even in 64-bit builds.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> I do not know why there are no warnings with the old code. Apparently, the
> system provided sprintf declaration does not have format-printf
> annotation.

Makes sense, and the patch looks obviously correct.

-Peff
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