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Re: [RFA record/replay] cast to avoid compiler warning
> Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:25:57 -0700
> From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>
>
> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 08:44:38AM -0700, Michael Snyder wrote:
> >> Yes, but we don't know that gdb will always be built using gnulib.
> >
> > Gnulib is a library of portability replacement routines that GDB can
> > import. We already use it for stdint.h and memchr / memmem. We could
> > easily add it for further routines.
>
> OK. So, would you favor using the "%zd" modifier instead of a cast?
>
> I mainly didn't do that because there were no existing instances
> of it in gdb now, but I was just being conservative...
We still only require ISO C90 to build GDB, so we shouldn't use %zd.