Re: GCC 4.1 now the default GCC version for etch

[Falk Hueffner <falk@debian.org>]

Henning Makholm wrote:

> Another related bug type that I found lurking in my packages when I
> investigated the warnings in this list, is trying to format a size_t
> value with a %u or %d format string, which will break if size_t is 64
> bits (unless the actual number is small and it is the last argument
> and the endianness of the architecture happens to match its stack
> growth direction).

Since any sane ABI pads arguments to word size, this is only a problem
on big endian 64-bit architectures (that is, no current release
architecture).

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	Falk