Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/10] 64 bit resources core changes

[Al Viro]

On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 09:56:59PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 12:52 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > > 
> > > hmmmm are there any platforms where unsigned long long is > 64 bits?
> > > (and yes it would be nice if there was a u64 printf flag ;)
> > 
> > Adding a new printf flag is technically _trivial_.
> > 
> > The problem is getting gcc not to warn about it every time it sees it 
> > (while not losing the gcc format string checking entirely). Do newer gcc's 
> > allow some way of saying "this flag takes this type" for extended format 
> > definitions?
> 
> afaics there is none... even if there was a "just don't warn about this
> one" would be nice.. but I don't see that either.

-Wformat is what enables those, so we can turn them all off.
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