On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 11:33:51AM +0100, Vincent Torri wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Joerg Sonnenberger
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 07:23:36AM +0100, Vincent Torri wrote:
>> >> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 1:18 AM, Joerg Sonnenberger
>> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> > On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:10:47AM +0100, Vincent Torri wrote:
>> >> >> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 11:38 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger
>> >> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> >> > On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 11:28:28PM +0100, Lionel Orry wrote:
>> >> >> >> - eina: the __gnu_printf__ format attribute is only valid since GCC
>> >> >> >> 4.4. However, we can find __printf__ format before. I'm not sure 
>> >> >> >> they
>> >> >> >> are equivalent though, so any hints on the fix appreciated... 
>> >> >> >> (tested
>> >> >> >> with GCC 4.3.4)
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > They are supposedly equivalent on Linux and HURD. They are not
>> >> >> > equivalent on other systems and arguably using any glibc extensions 
>> >> >> > in
>> >> >> > EFL is a bug.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Why is it a problem ? As it's tested in a GNUC environment, explain me
>> >> >> why it will fail, and on which system.
>> >> >
>> >> > Because other systems don't implement the glibc extensions for printf?
>> >>
>> >> that's a gcc problem. But you didn't list the systems for which
>> >> gnu_printf is not implemented, and for which the compilation *will
>> >> fail*
>> >
>> > You misunderstand. The problem is not that gnu_printf is not recognized
>> > by GCC, but that the underlaying printf implementation may not support
>> > the GNU extensions. So it is pretty pointless to mark eina_log_print as
>> > supporting the GNU extensions, if that it isn't true about printf. The
>> > most trivial example of a GNU extension for printf from memory is %m.
>>
>> ok. I had that problem for the Windows port. So I added in it a 'gnu'
>> version of printf, that is provided by the MinGW team (no licence
>> problem, it's PD).
>
> Windows is a bit special as Microsoft doesn't believe in C99 support.
> There are generally no excuses for using the GNU extensions for printf
> -- they are pretty much completely pointless.

I needed such port for %z and %hh, which are not supported by microsoft libc

Vincet

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