[U-Boot] debug warning

York Sun yorksun at freescale.com
Wed Jul 15 22:25:45 CEST 2015



On 07/15/2015 01:23 PM, Albert ARIBAUD wrote:
> Hello York,
> 
> On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 13:02:07 -0700, York Sun <yorksun at freescale.com>
> wrote:
>> Simon,
>>
>> Did it happen to you with this warning?
>>
>> lib/fdtdec.c:108:4: warning: format ‘%x’ expects argument of type ‘unsigned
>> int’, but argument 3 has type ‘fdt_size_t’ [-Wformat=]
>>     debug("addr=%08lx, size=%08x\n",
>>     ^
>>
>> I think when we have 64-bit physical address, as defined in fdtdec.h, this debug
>> statement needs to be changed. I am thinking to change the typedef fdt_addr_t to
>> phys_addr_t, and fdt_size_t to phys_size_t. What do you say?
> 
> I say there is no reason to change a type just because a printf format
> specifier is wrong for it when building for 64-bit.
> 
> Is there a rationale apart from the format specifier error?
> 
> If not, then What should be done is fix the specifier so that it is
> correct in both 32 and 64 bits.
> 

Albert,

Let me send a RFC patch so you can comment on it.

York



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