From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2011-11-29T00:10:22+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:41371] Re: [ruby-trunk - Bug #5679][Open] Too many arguments for format warnings on mingw32 build

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:56 AM, KOSAKI Motohiro
<kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I can see the following warnings during mingw32 build.
>>
>> gc.c: In function 'gc_profile_result':
>> gc.c:3581:4: warning: unknown conversion type character 'z' in format
>> gc.c:3581:4: warning: unknown conversion type character 'z' in format
>> gc.c:3581:4: warning: unknown conversion type character 'z' in format
>> gc.c:3581:4: warning: format '%30.20f' expects type 'double', but argument 5 has type 'unsigned int'
>> gc.c:3581:4: warning: too many arguments for format
>
> Where does 'z' come from?
>

PRI?SIZE from ruby.h

Anyhow, I think this is coming from printf implementation of MinGW:

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37768

And this:

http://mingw-users.1079350.n2.nabble.com/quot-z-quot-format-in-printf-statements-td5804407.html

Quoting:

"On 05.12.2010 6:36, Simson Garfinkel wrote:
> Hi. Another porting question.
>
> GCC on every platform I use has a %z format for size_t data. I even saw that on mingw with gcc 3.5 when run as a cross-compiler. But the %z format seems missing from the 4.x gcc running on Windows-hosted GCC. What should I do?
>
> bloom.c:221:5: warning: unknown conversion type character 'z' in format
>
CFLAGS="-D_GNU_SOURCE=1" works for me. "

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