Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
I have to admit to liking the Windows extension %I64u for this kind of stuff.
Unfortunately gcc/glibc decided to use I for internationalized digits instead
:(
The sad part is that this is purely a gcc thing. We could easily do the
right thing in the kernel vsnprintf stuff, but then we'd have to drop the
nice format warnings from gcc ;(
Yes, that's the fundamental problem.
There isn't even a flag for gcc to set this behaviour, with the result
that any code compiled with MinGW (gcc for Win32) spews warnings like crazy.
-hpa
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