Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 14:53:32 +0200
From: Gert Doering <gert@...1296...>
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Subject: Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH] Avoid format specifier %zu for Windows
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To: Steffan Karger <steffan@...1856...>
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Hi,

On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 09:32:35AM +0200, Steffan Karger wrote:
> MSVC 2015 claims to support C99 now (took them 16 years!), and it
> should at least support %zu (which is part of C99).  Shouldn't we just
> move (at least the master branch) to C99?  Or are there good reasons
> to keep punishing ourselves with having to support C89?

Well, I'd assume that %zu is more a libc thing (as printf() format parsing
happens at runtime) than what the C compiler understands - and if, say,=20
Win7 libc.dll (or however it's called) doesn't grok %zu, we can't use=20
it...

This is why I was asking what breaks exactly :-)

gert
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