[patch bfd]: Fix printf formatter for mingw 1 of N

Ian Lance Taylor iant@google.com
Thu Oct 11 17:36:00 GMT 2012


On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Kai Tietz <ktietz70@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 2012/10/11 Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>:
>>
>> Are there really occurrences of %z in a printf format string?  I do
>> see some %z in strings, but they aren't passed to printf.  Maybe I
>> didn't look carefully enough.
>
> Sure, there are.  They are occuring all in gold.  This tool shall work
> on windows-host AFAIU, so there is for sure an issue. (gold has also
> many uses of %llx, too).

Are you saying that mingw doesn't support %z in a printf format
string?  It's in C99, i.e., it has been standardized for over ten
years.

Ian



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