From: Simon Peyton-Jones <simo...@microsoft.com>
To: "Edward Z. Yang" <ezy...@mit.edu>, Simon Marlow
<marlo...@gmail.com>
Cc: "ghc-devs@haskell.org" <ghc-devs@haskell.org>
Subject: RE: More windows woe
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Simon Marlow: please help!
At the moment windows builds are hosed, which is a Bad Situation.
Actually it turns out that what want is
debugBelch("Checking whether to unload %S\n", oc->fileName));
That is, use "%S" rather than "%s" as format specifier for wide chars.
Sadly, this works on Windows, but not on Linux:
rts/CheckUnload.c:260:13:
error: format ?%S? expects argument of type ?wchar_t *?, but argument 2
has type ?pathchar *? [-Werror=format]
So what I need guidance on, please!, is what the approved way to deal with this
is. I suppose that I could identify each use of %s on a filepath and say
#ifdef mingw32_HOST_OS
debugBelch("Checking whether to unload %S\n", oc->fileName));
#else
debugBelch("Checking whether to unload %s\n", oc->fileName));
#endif
But that seems deeply unsatisfactory doesn't it?
If not that, then what?
Simon
Similar code is in place to distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit StgWords:
> grep -r -e FMT_Word includes/
includes/stg/Types.h:#define FMT_Word32 "u"
includes/stg/Types.h:#define FMT_Word32 "lu"
includes/stg/Types.h:#define FMT_Word64 "lu"
includes/stg/Types.h:#define FMT_Word64 "llu"
includes/stg/Types.h:#define FMT_Word FMT_Word64
includes/stg/Types.h:#define FMT_Word FMT_Word32
and format strings like "blabla " FMT_Word " ..blabla" are used inside
rts/. One could do the same for FMT_Path and introduce it where required.
Maybe this would be acceptable?
/ Jost
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