Re: [PATCH] pktgen: sprintf arg type warning

[Sam Leffler <sam@xxxxxxxxx>]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Other systems have addressed this problem by extending printf with 
> > portable %formats.
>
>
> Problem is that gcc -Wformat doesn't know the new format codes,
> and in Linux we still have to support old gcc versions.

Yes, gcc has been modified to understand the new %formats.  That's the 
advantage to distributing a full system and not just a kernel :)

> Standard trick is to cast to long.
>
> -Andi