Re: linux-next: Tree for April 10 (arch/x86)

[Al Viro]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 08:19:01AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:

> > It
> > is a totally uninteresting warning that we pass in a narrower type to 
> > printk(). It cannot ever cause any bugs or problems. Why does gcc warn 
> > about it?
> 
> No idea about that part.

Er...  That's kinda obvious - vararg function getting the wrong-sized
argument is *NOT* a harmless situation.  And yes, it's certainly a bug -
gcc manages to recover by using the knowledge of printf() formats (i.e.
it guesses that we want a long long and does conversion), but try to
do
	char *s = "%llx %c";
	printf(s, 1, '.');
and watch the show...
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