Re: Hint for a port of a package

[David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>]

>>>>> On Sat, 2 Nov 2002 17:59:25 -0800, Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org> said:

  >> ANSI specifies %z for size_t so better would be:
  >> 
  >> syslog(LOG_WARNING, "cmd_q(): malloc(%z) returned NULL",
  >> sizeof(struct ordq_item_t));

  Randolph> indeed this is more correct, unfortunately gcc-2.96
  Randolph> doesn't support this. so until we get 3.x, we'll have to
  Randolph> stick with %ld for now :(

%z is a "length modifier", so the correct format to print size_t
(unsigned) is:

	%zu

This does work on gcc-2.96.

	--david