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From: arnd@arndb.de (Arnd Bergmann)
To: linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] lpfc: use %zd format string for size_t
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 23:48:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <13484858.soC083COth@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <27a8ca4b-3259-17bd-acbf-ee809ec4f67b@synopsys.com>

On Friday, October 28, 2016 2:44:13 PM CEST Vineet Gupta wrote:
> 
> Indeed if I hack include/linux/types.h
> 
> -typedef __kernel_size_t                size_t;
> +typedef unsigned long          size_t;
> 
> then the warning goes away, so gcc is indeed assuming size_t to be unsigned long
> and not unsigned int. That helps a lot.

Ok, just be aware that this will introduce warnings for any
compiler that is built to expect an 'unsigned int size_t'
typedef.

	Arnd

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@synopsys.com>
Cc: arcml <linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Claudiu Zissulescu <Claudiu.Zissulescu@synopsys.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lpfc: use %zd format string for size_t
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 23:48:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <13484858.soC083COth@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <27a8ca4b-3259-17bd-acbf-ee809ec4f67b@synopsys.com>

On Friday, October 28, 2016 2:44:13 PM CEST Vineet Gupta wrote:
> 
> Indeed if I hack include/linux/types.h
> 
> -typedef __kernel_size_t                size_t;
> +typedef unsigned long          size_t;
> 
> then the warning goes away, so gcc is indeed assuming size_t to be unsigned long
> and not unsigned int. That helps a lot.

Ok, just be aware that this will introduce warnings for any
compiler that is built to expect an 'unsigned int size_t'
typedef.

	Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-28 21:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-17 12:35 [PATCH] lpfc: use %zd format string for size_t Arnd Bergmann
2016-10-17 13:39 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2016-10-17 15:53 ` James Smart
2016-10-17 17:59 ` Martin K. Petersen
2016-10-28 21:03 ` Vineet Gupta
2016-10-28 21:03   ` Vineet Gupta
2016-10-28 21:33   ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-10-28 21:33     ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-10-28 21:44     ` Vineet Gupta
2016-10-28 21:44       ` Vineet Gupta
2016-10-28 21:48       ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2016-10-28 21:48         ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-10-28 21:52       ` Vineet Gupta
2016-10-28 21:52         ` Vineet Gupta
2016-10-28 21:58         ` Vineet Gupta
2016-10-28 21:58           ` Vineet Gupta
2016-10-28 22:03           ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-10-28 22:03             ` Arnd Bergmann
2016-10-28 23:16             ` Vineet Gupta
2016-10-28 23:16               ` Vineet Gupta

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