Fixes for format strings

Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
Sun Dec 10 06:14:00 GMT 2000


Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:

|> Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> writes:
|> 
|> > It should be:
|> > 	  sprintf (tmp, (base == 10 ? "%.*s%0*ld" : "%.*s%0*lX"), cp - last_str,
|> > 		   last_str, (int) (now->val.str.lenmb - (cp - last_str)), from);
|> 
|> Not quite.  You also have to change
|> 
|>   cp - last_str
|> 
|> to
|>   (int) (cp - last_str)
|> 
|> as Jakub said.

Why?  What's wrong with substracting a ptrdiff_t from a size_t?

Andreas.

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