Re: [PATCH] libbpf: Fix up generation of bpf_helper_defs.h

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Wed Nov 27 2019 - 20:17:20 EST


On November 27, 2019 9:59:15 PM GMT-03:00, Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 4:50 PM Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
><arnaldo.melo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Take it as one, I think it's what should have been in the cset it is
>fixing, that way no breakage would have happened.
>
>Ok. I trimmed commit log and applied here:
>https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf.git/commit/?id=1fd450f99272791df8ea8e1b0f5657678e118e90
>
>What about your other fix and my suggestion there?
>(__u64) cast instead of PRI ?
>We do this already in two places:
>libbpf.c: shdr_idx, (__u64)sym->st_value);
>libbpf.c: (__u64)sym.st_value, GELF_ST_TYPE(sym.st_info),


I'm using the smartphone now, but I thought you first suggested using a cast to long, if you mean using %llu + cast to __u64, then should be was ugly as using PRI, IOW, should work on both 64 bit and 32 bit. :-)

- Arnaldo