On Apr 24 21:40, Christian Franke wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >>- DON'T forget to add casts if such Win32 API types are used with
> >>printf(). This:
> >>
> >> printf("Win32 Error=%lu\n", GetLastError());
> >>
> >>worked for all i686 and Windows x86_64, but fails now on Cygwin x86_64.
> >I skipped that because the FAQ entry is not exactly what I wrote in my
> >mail. Do you still think this is necessary?
>
> No - these cases would be reported by compiler if -W[error=]format
> is enabled.
>
> Yes - the knowledge that there is no portable way to pass DWORD,
> LONG, ... to printf() without a cast might help to write correct
> code without test builds on all platforms :-)
I extended the FAQ entry and added two more:
http://cygwin.com/faq-nochunks.html#faq.programming.64bitporting
http://cygwin.com/faq-nochunks.html#faq.programming.64bitporting-fail
http://cygwin.com/faq-nochunks.html#faq.programming.64bitporting-cygwin64
Corinna
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