Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> 
> On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> I have to admit to liking the Windows extension %I64u for this kind of stuff.
>> Unfortunately gcc/glibc decided to use I for internationalized digits instead
>> :(
> 
> The sad part is that this is purely a gcc thing. We could easily do the 
> right thing in the kernel vsnprintf stuff, but then we'd have to drop the 
> nice format warnings from gcc ;(
> 

Yes, that's the fundamental problem.

There isn't even a flag for gcc to set this behaviour, with the result 
that any code compiled with MinGW (gcc for Win32) spews warnings like crazy.

	-hpa
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