Re: wchar_t printf() format warning

[Eric Blake <eblake at redhat dot com>]

On 03/19/2015 09:46 AM, Jonathan Roelofs wrote:

> 
> That's a platform decision, not a gcc decision. AFAIK, there is no
> language requirement that wint_t and wchar_t be the same type.

In fact, on cygwin, wchar_t is 16-bit, but wint_t is 32-bit, because
there is no free 16-bit value that can hold WEOF.  On the other hand, on
cygwin, passing wchar_t through va_arg promotes to 32-bit, so it happens
to promote to wint_t and programmers can get away without the cast -
whereas your platform was a question of wchar_t (32-bit int) not
promoting to wint_t (32-bit long), making the cast necessary unless you
can fix gcc to not use inconsistent 32-bit types.

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