Re: [Linux-ia64] new toolchain snapshots

[David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>]

>>>>> On Thu, 31 Aug 2000 14:44:59 +0200 (MET DST), Dan Pop <Dan.Pop@cern.ch> said:

  Dan> 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?

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

Geez, gotta love ANSI C...  I'll fix the ia64 specific kernel files.

	--david