[PATCH] Trivial printf format warning fixes
Andreas Jaeger
aj@suse.de
Mon Apr 22 23:20:00 GMT 2002
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
> On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
>
>> error ("Syntax error at prompt position %d",
>> - promptp - local_prompt);
>> + (int) (promptp - local_prompt));
>
> I think the result of subtracting two pointers can be wider than an int,
> can't it? If so, casting to an int is not right, and the format should
> be changed to %ld.
ISO C99 introduced 't' for ptrdiff_t, so we could use '%td' here if we
have an ISO C99 compiler.
> (Yes, this is nitpicking, but if we are to fix this warning, might as
> well do it right ;-)
Andreas
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