[libvirt] [PATCH libvirt 3/6] Fix warnings about pid_t printf format on mingw64

[Marc-André Lureau]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Daniel P. Berrange
<berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 05:54:19PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
>> On 01/25/2012 05:22 PM, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
>> >> the decision should _not_ be based on _WIN64, but instead on a
>> >> configure-time test on the underlying type of pid_t.  And since
>> >> _that_
>> >> gets difficult, I'd almost rather go with the simpler approach of:
>> >>
>> >> "%" PRIdMAX, (intmax_t) pid
>> >>
>> >> everywhere that we currently use
>> >>
>> >> "%d", pid
>> >>
>> >
>> > I thought about using that solution, but I prefer the format macro.
>
>> > Tbh, I wish some of these would be part of gnulib (perhaps some already are).
>>
>> Sadly, no one has made a case for extended type macros in gnulib.  And
>> mingw points out the problem - we can't use "lld" nor PRIdMAX for pid_t,
>> since we don't know whether the code is targetting gnu printf, windows
>> printf, or a mix.  I really do think we're stuck with casting to (long
>> long) or (intmax_t) in this case :(
>
> But we can use 'lld' because we made sure all libvirt code goes
> via the gnulib printf replacements which guarentee %lld works
> correctly.

Actually, it doesn't. The replacement is provided by the module
"stdio" which isn't used (or perhaps indirectly?). But even if it was
used, it wouldn't be the POSIX version using gnuprintf format, it
would be the "system" one. If we want the former, we would need
"fprintf-posix" module, unfortunately, it seems to have incompatible
licenses:

.gnulib/gnulib-tool: *** incompatible license on modules:
                 fpieee                                            LGPL
                 fprintf-posix                                     LGPL
                 fpucw                                             LGPL
                 frexp-nolibm                                      LGPL
                 frexpl-nolibm                                     LGPL
                 fseterr                                           LGPL
                 isnand-nolibm                                     LGPL
                 isnanf-nolibm                                     LGPL
                 isnanl-nolibm                                     LGPL
                 printf-frexp                                      LGPL
                 printf-frexpl                                     LGPL
                 printf-safe                                       LGPL
                 signbit                                           LGPL

However, it would only solve the fprintf() call, not the fscanf() call
which doesn't have equivalent "fscanf-posix" yet.

An alternative to avoid casting everywhere is to use a couple of
helper functions to do the job of:

fprintf(file, "%" PID_FORMAT, pid) and fscanf(file, "%" PID_FORMAT,
pid) which I guess could be replaced by virFprintfPid() and
virFscanfPid(). Agree?

-- 
Marc-André Lureau