Bug with -Wall? (2.95.3)

[Alexandre Oliva]

On May 27, 2001, "Tom Browder" <tbrowder@home.com> wrote:

>   printf("testing: %td\n", 3);
>   printf("testing %zd\n", 3);


> and gcc 2.95.3 complains about:

> warning: unknown conversion type character `t' in format

> (same for `z')

> but the output is OK.

These are new modifiers that GCC 2.95.3 didn't know about, but the C
library you're using already does.  Even if it did, there's no way it
could know for sure whether the C library you're going to use to run
the program will support them.

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