Re: [Qemu-trivial] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] trace/simple: Fix warning and wrong trace file name for MinGW

[Eric Blake]

On 09/28/2015 09:19 AM, Stefan Weil wrote:
> Am 28.09.2015 um 17:06 schrieb Eric Blake:
>> On 09/28/2015 02:26 AM, Stefan Weil wrote:
>>
>>>> Can you explain why osdep.h's
>>>>
>>>>     #define FMT_pid "%" PRId64
>>>>
>>>> is appropriate for Windows?
>>> Don't blame me for any strangeness which you might find in Windows. :-)
>>>
>>> Mingw-w64 sys/types.h defines pid_t to be either an int or an __int64.
>>> FMT_pid must match these definitions.
>>>
>>> But getpid returns an int, not a pid_t...
>> Can we 1) file a bug against mingw for their buggy getpid(), and 2)
>> write a wrapper that makes getpid() always return pid_t in the meantime?
> 
> 1) No, because MinGW and Mingw-w64 use the same declaration as MS.
> They cannot change that, of course. Nor will MS correct this after many
> years, for obvious reasons.

If getpid() always returns int, then defining pid_t to __int64 feels
wrong.  I still claim its a mingw bug to have a mismatch in types.

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
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