Porting to 64 bit Cygwin (was Re: Difference in 32/64-bit curl.)

[Christian Franke]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> - DON'T forget to add casts if such Win32 API types are used with
>> printf(). This:
>>
>>    printf("Win32 Error=%lu\n", GetLastError());
>>
>> worked for all i686 and Windows x86_64, but fails now on Cygwin x86_64.
> I skipped that because the FAQ entry is not exactly what I wrote in my
> mail.  Do you still think this is necessary?

No - these cases would be reported by compiler if -W[error=]format is 
enabled.

Yes - the knowledge that there is no portable way to pass DWORD, LONG, 
... to printf() without a cast might help to write correct code without 
test builds on all platforms :-)

Christian


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