Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] mingw: Do not perform string format checks

[Jan Kiszka]

Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> 
>> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>
>>>> Blue Swirl wrote:
>>>>> On 6/14/09, Jan Kiszka <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>> [ I can't check the situation with cygwin, so this is mingw-only. ]
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  gcc still does not support the Windows-specific format string modifier
>>>>>>  "I64". Therefore, it makes no sense to check for format string
>>>>>>  correctness and generate tons of false positives.
>>>>> I don't have this problem, currently mingw builds with zero warnings
>>>>> for me. But I didn't enable automatic -Werror flag for mingw just
>>>>> because I guessed this would happen. What's the gcc version you're
>>>>> using?
>>>> i686-pc-mingw32-gcc (GCC) 4.3.3
>>> 4.3.3 is known to show this bad behavior.  AFAICT it is fixed in 4.4.0.  
>>> (At least it fixed things for msysGit.)
>>>
>>> FWIW by "bad behavior" I mean that a compiler warning is emitted when 
>>> using %I64, but not when using %ll.  But when executing the program, it 
>>> actually _requires_ a %I64, _not_ a %ll.
>>>
>>> In light of this, I _strongly_ recommend updating to 4.4.0.
>> I will, once I come across a pre-built one that fits.
> 
> The de-facto standard is http://www.tdragon.net/recentgcc/

This is pre-built, but for an uninteresting host platform (also known as
Windows). :)

Jan

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