Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] mingw: Do not perform string format checks

[Jan Kiszka]

Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> 
>> Blue Swirl wrote:
>>> On 6/14/09, Jan Kiszka <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> [ I can't check the situation with cygwin, so this is mingw-only. ]
>>>>
>>>>  gcc still does not support the Windows-specific format string modifier
>>>>  "I64". Therefore, it makes no sense to check for format string
>>>>  correctness and generate tons of false positives.
>>> I don't have this problem, currently mingw builds with zero warnings
>>> for me. But I didn't enable automatic -Werror flag for mingw just
>>> because I guessed this would happen. What's the gcc version you're
>>> using?
>> i686-pc-mingw32-gcc (GCC) 4.3.3
> 
> 4.3.3 is known to show this bad behavior.  AFAICT it is fixed in 4.4.0.  
> (At least it fixed things for msysGit.)
> 
> FWIW by "bad behavior" I mean that a compiler warning is emitted when 
> using %I64, but not when using %ll.  But when executing the program, it 
> actually _requires_ a %I64, _not_ a %ll.
> 
> In light of this, I _strongly_ recommend updating to 4.4.0.

I will, once I come across a pre-built one that fits. For now I'll carry
the -Wno-format as extra flags. The toolchain performs nicely otherwise.

Thanks,
Jan

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