Re: [Linux-ia64] new toolchain snapshots

[Dan Pop <Dan.Pop@cern.ch>]

On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Keith Owens wrote:

> I'm getting a lot of warnings for format %p with the new toolchain on
> kernel 2.4.0-test7, e.g.
> 
> pci-dma.c:100: warning: void format, char arg (arg 2)
> 
> static char *io_tlb_start, *io_tlb_end;
>         printk("Placing software IO TLB between 0x%p - 0x%p\n", io_tlb_start, io_tlb_end);
> 
> What is the correct way to handle these?  Cast all pointers to (void *)
> for printing or is there a compiler option I can use to make %p accept
> any pointer, i.e. the old behaviour?

The *correct* way to fix it is to cast every argument corresponding to
a %p to void *, because this is what the C standard requires for printf.

Dan