Re: MS-Windows warnings (was build failure) for Emacs master

[Davis Herring]

> As I understand it, though, MS-Windows defines GetLastError to return
> unsigned int on 64-bit machines, and unsigned long on 32-bit machines
> (!). This idiosyncrasy could be handled in the MS-Windows port by
> something like this:
>
> |#ifdef __MINGW64__ # define pDWORD "" #else # define pDWORD "l" #endif
> and then the above code could be: printf ("Checking parent status
> failed: %"pDWORD"u\n", GetLastError ()); |

I know the real problem has been addressed otherwise; however, surely 
for this sort of variability (between just these two types) one should 
simply write

printf ("Checking parent status failed: %lu\n",
        (unsigned long) GetLastError ());

without any preprocessor excitement.

Davis

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