Re: Build regressions/improvements in v3.0-rc5 (ssize_t ???)

Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-06-30T09:32:22Z

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 10:56, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 10:43:47AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> > Better fix the code to use the proper %zd specifier for printing ssize_t
>> > variables.
>>
>> We cannot, as that would break on all other platforms that use the
>> correct ssize_t.
>
> %zd is specified as the correct format for ssize_t.

And the code is already using that!
But cris overrides ssize_t to a different type than expected by the compiler.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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