[bug-diffutils] bug#64811: [PATCH] build: avoid use of C11 specific %t format size spec

[Pádraig Brady]

On 02/08/2023 00:11, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 2023-08-01 06:28, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > perhaps we can now use %j, %t, and %z now?
>
> I hope so, particularly as we haven't seen any issues with Coreutils 9.1
> or later.
>
> I haven't run into problems using these printf formats for a while.
> Gnulib doc is ambiguous, but suggests it could be an issue on AIX 5.1,
> HP-UX 11.23, IRIX 6.5, Solaris 9, Cygwin 1.5.24, mingw, MSVC 14. Of
> these, the only platforms that are not obsolete are mingw and MSVC 14,
> and Stack Overflow[1] suggests that this is only with older MS-Windows
> versions and can be worked around easily on those older versions by
> whoever's doing the port.
>
> Diffutils doesn't work on MS-Windows now anyway, as per Bug#64811, so
> I'll cc to that bug report to give Gisle Vanem a heads-up about this
> other issue.
>
> [1]:
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44382862/how-to-printf-a-size-t-without-warning-in-mingw-w64-gcc-7-1

Thanks for the info.
I'll apply the following to allow use of all C99 size specs so.

cheers,
Pádraig

coreutils-allow-c99-size-specs.patch
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