Re: [PATCH 1/3] qemu/compiler: Simplify as all compilers support attribute 'gnu_printf'

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 03:14:45PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 at 15:06, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
> > I think this can be simplified even more by using GLib's macros
> >
> >   #define GCC_FMT_ATTR(n, m)  G_GNUC_PRINTF(n, m)
> 
> At least on my system G_GNUC_PRINTF() expands to
> __format__(__printf__,...), not gnu_printf, so it is
> not quite what we want. (The difference is that on Windows
> hosts we still want to mark up our our logging functions as
> taking the glibc style format handling, not whatever the
> MS C library format escapes happen to be.)
> At a minimum you'd need to keep in the "on Windows,
> redefine __printf__ to __gnu_printf__" logic.
> 
> See also commit 95df51a4a02a853.

Oh, that's a bug in old GLib versions. I thought we had a new enough
min to avoid that problem, but i guess not after all.

Modern GLib always uses gnu_printf even on Windows, as they're using a
replacement GNU compatible printf impl for all the GLib APIs that take
format strings.

Regards,
Daniel
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