Re: [PATCH] iproute2: fix build failure on ppc64le

[Andrea Claudi <aclaudi@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Feb 09, 2024 at 04:45:42PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Feb 2024 15:14:28 -0700
> David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 2/9/24 9:35 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > > On Fri,  9 Feb 2024 11:24:47 +0100
> > > Andrea Claudi <aclaudi@redhat.com> wrote:
> > >   
> > >> ss.c:3244:34: warning: format ‘%llu’ expects argument of type ‘long long unsigned int’, but argument 2 has type ‘__u64’ {aka ‘long unsigned int’} [-Wformat=]
> > >>  3244 |                 out(" rcv_nxt:%llu", s->mptcpi_rcv_nxt);
> > >>       |                               ~~~^   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > >>       |                                  |    |
> > >>       |                                  |    __u64 {aka long unsigned int}
> > >>       |                                  long long unsigned int
> > >>       |                               %lu
> > >>
> > >> This happens because __u64 is defined as long unsigned on ppc64le.  As
> > >> pointed out by Florian Weimar, we should use -D__SANE_USERSPACE_TYPES__
> > >> if we really want to use long long unsigned in iproute2.  
> > > 
> > > Ok, this looks good.
> > > Another way to fix would be to use the macros defined in inttypes.h
> > > 
> > > 		out(" rcv_nxt:"PRIu64, s->mptcpi_rcv_nxt);
> > >   
> > 
> > since the uapi is __u64, I think this is the better approach.
> 
> NVM
> Tried it, but __u64 is not the same as uint64_t even on x86.
> __u64 is long long unsigned int
> uint64_t is long unsigned int
>

Is there anything more I can do about this?