Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] target-ppc: Cast ssize_t to size_t before printing with %zx

[Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>]

Am 23.12.2014 um 23:22 schrieb Peter Maydell:
> The mingw32 compiler complains about trying to print variables of type
> ssize_t with the %z format string specifier. Since we're printing it
> as unsigned hex anyway, cast to size_t to silence the warning.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> ---
> I suspect that this is a compiler bug, but this is the only instance
> in the codebase so I'm prepared to work around it to get to a point
> where we can turn on warnings-as-errors for w32, because some of the
> w32-specific errors really are flagging up issues we need to fix.
> ---
>   hw/ppc/spapr.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr.c b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
> index 08401e0..9aaa800 100644
> --- a/hw/ppc/spapr.c
> +++ b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
> @@ -1438,7 +1438,7 @@ static void ppc_spapr_init(MachineState *machine)
>       }
>       if (spapr->rtas_size > RTAS_MAX_SIZE) {
>           hw_error("RTAS too big ! 0x%zx bytes (max is 0x%x)\n",
> -                 spapr->rtas_size, RTAS_MAX_SIZE);
> +                 (size_t)spapr->rtas_size, RTAS_MAX_SIZE);
>           exit(1);
>       }
>       g_free(filename);

Which compiler did you use? I get no warning with Debian's 
x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc 4.6.3 or
native MinGW-w32 compilers.

Stefan