Re: [PATCH] Fix up a multitude of ACPI compiler warnings on x86_64

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:37:58 -0700
Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com> wrote:

> 32bit vs 64 bit issues. sizeof(sizeof) and sizeof(pointer) is variable,
> but we're trying to shove it into unsigned int or u32.
>
> ...
>
> -	"RSDT/XSDT length (%X) is smaller than minimum (%X)",
> +	"RSDT/XSDT length (%X) is smaller than minimum (%lX)",
>  	table_ptr->length,
> -	sizeof(struct acpi_table_header)));
> +	(unsigned long) sizeof(struct acpi_table_header)));
> 

These two sizeof()s have already been fixed by Randy in -mm's
acpi-fix-printk-format-warnings.patch.

Randy's fix is the preferred one: sizeof() returns size_t and size_t's are
printed with %z - there's no need to use a typecast.

(Actually Randy used %Z which avoids the warning which old gcc emitted with
%z, but is old-fashioned.  I'll switch that to %z).


acpi-fix-printk-format-warnings.patch was submitted to the ACPI developers
on August 14 and on September 25 but remains unmerged.