Bug 143773 – [W32] Many warnings about printf format all over the code when building with MinGW

• Status: NEW
• Component: New Bugs

[LRN]

"printf" means "gnu_printf" when compiling for non-Windows and means
"ms_printf" when compiling for Windows. The code, however, does seems to be
assuming gnu_printf (judging by the use of %z and %l).

[LRN]

Created attachment 250820 [details]
Change printf format attribute to gnu_printf, MinGW compatibility

"printf" means "gnu_printf" when compiling for non-Windows and means
"ms_printf" when compiling for Windows. The code, however, does seems to be
assuming gnu_printf (judging by the use of %z and %l).

Fix this by explicitly specifying gnu_printf format style.
To ensure that gnu-compatible printf implementation is used, compile
with -D__USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO=1, it will automagically turn all *printf()
invocations into __mingw_*printf(), which are gnu-compatible.

Only one function that won't be turned is _vsnprintf(). Ifdef its use and
call vsnprintf() instead when __USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO != 0.

[Darin Adler]

Comment on attachment 250820 [details]
Change printf format attribute to gnu_printf, MinGW compatibility

View in context: https://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=250820&action=review

> Source/WTF/ChangeLog:7
> +        "printf" means "gnu_printf" when compiling for non-Windows and means
> +        "ms_printf" when compiling for Windows. The code, however, does seems to be
> +        assuming gnu_printf (judging by the use of %z and %l).

We don’t need to use %z and %l; where do you see those? This patch might makes things better for MinGW, but they don’t resolve the problem for Windows so I’d prefer to actually tackle that problem.

[LRN]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Comment on attachment 250820 [details]
> Change printf format attribute to gnu_printf, MinGW compatibility
> 
> View in context:
> https://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=250820&action=review
> 
> > Source/WTF/ChangeLog:7
> > +        "printf" means "gnu_printf" when compiling for non-Windows and means
> > +        "ms_printf" when compiling for Windows. The code, however, does seems to be
> > +        assuming gnu_printf (judging by the use of %z and %l).
> 
> We don’t need to use %z and %l; where do you see those? This patch might
> makes things better for MinGW, but they don’t resolve the problem for
> Windows so I’d prefer to actually tackle that problem.

../webkitgtk-2.4.8/Source/WTF/wtf/FilePrintStream.cpp: In member function 'virtual void WTF::FilePrintStream::vprintf(const char*, va_list)':
../webkitgtk-2.4.8/Source/WTF/wtf/FilePrintStream.cpp:55:37: warning: function might be possible candidate for 'gnu_printf' format attribute [-Wsuggest-attribute=format]
     vfprintf(m_file, format, argList);
                                     ^

../webkitgtk-2.4.8/Source/WTF/wtf/PrintStream.cpp: In function 'void WTF::printInternal(WTF::PrintStream&, long long int)':
../webkitgtk-2.4.8/Source/WTF/wtf/PrintStream.cpp:124:29: warning: unknown conversion type character 'l' in format [-Wformat=]
     out.printf("%lld", value);
                             ^
../webkitgtk-2.4.8/Source/WTF/wtf/PrintStream.cpp:124:29: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
../webkitgtk-2.4.8/Source/WTF/wtf/PrintStream.cpp: In function 'void WTF::printInternal(WTF::PrintStream&, long long unsigned int)':
../webkitgtk-2.4.8/Source/WTF/wtf/PrintStream.cpp:129:29: warning: unknown conversion type character 'l' in format [-Wformat=]
     out.printf("%llu", value);
                             ^
../webkitgtk-2.4.8/Source/WTF/wtf/PrintStream.cpp:129:29: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]

../webkitgtk-2.4.8/Source/WTF/wtf/StringPrintStream.cpp: In member function 'virtual void WTF::StringPrintStream::vprintf(const char*, va_list)':
../webkitgtk-2.4.8/Source/WTF/wtf/StringPrintStream.cpp:60:79: warning: function might be possible candidate for 'gnu_printf' format attribute [-Wsuggest-attribute=format]
         vsnprintf(m_buffer + m_next, m_size - m_next, format, firstPassArgList);
                                                                               ^
../webkitgtk-2.4.8/Source/WTF/wtf/StringPrintStream.cpp:73:70: warning: function might be possible candidate for 'gnu_printf' format attribute [-Wsuggest-attribute=format]
         vsnprintf(m_buffer + m_next, m_size - m_next, format, argList);
                                                                      ^
../webkitgtk-2.4.8/Source/WTF/wtf/text/WTFString.cpp: In static member function 'static WTF::String WTF::String::format(const char*, ...)':
../webkitgtk-2.4.8/Source/WTF/wtf/text/WTFString.cpp:463:48: warning: function might be possible candidate for 'gnu_printf' format attribute [-Wsuggest-attribute=format]
     int result = vsnprintf(&ch, 1, format, args);
                                                ^
../webkitgtk-2.4.8/Source/WTF/wtf/text/WTFString.cpp:482:57: warning: function might be possible candidate for 'gnu_printf' format attribute [-Wsuggest-attribute=format]
     vsnprintf(buffer.data(), buffer.size(), format, args);
                                                         ^

../webkitgtk-2.4.8/Source/WebCore/platform/sql/SQLiteFileSystem.cpp: In static member function 'static WTF::String WebCore::SQLiteFileSystem::getFileNameForNewDatabase(const WTF::String&, const WTF::String&, const WTF::String&, WebCore::SQLiteDatabase*)':
../webkitgtk-2.4.8/Source/WebCore/platform/sql/SQLiteFileSystem.cpp:76:91: warning: unknown conversion type character 'l' in format [-Wformat=]
         fileName = pathByAppendingComponent(dbDir, String::format("%016" PRIx64 ".db", seq));
                                                                                           ^
../webkitgtk-2.4.8/Source/WebCore/platform/sql/SQLiteFileSystem.cpp:76:91: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
../webkitgtk-2.4.8/Source/WebCore/platform/sql/SQLiteFileSystem.cpp:79:51: warning: unknown conversion type character 'l' in format [-Wformat=]
     return String::format("%016" PRIx64 ".db", seq);
                                                   ^
../webkitgtk-2.4.8/Source/WebCore/platform/sql/SQLiteFileSystem.cpp:79:51: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]

../webkitgtk-2.4.8/Source/JavaScriptCore/jsc.cpp: In member function 'JSC::StackVisitor::Status FunctionJSCStackFunctor::operator()(JSC::StackVisitor&)':
../webkitgtk-2.4.8/Source/JavaScriptCore/jsc.cpp:339:108: warning: unknown conversion type character 'z' in format [-Wformat=]
         m_trace.append(String::format("    %zu   %s\n", visitor->index(), visitor->toString().utf8().data()));
                                                                                                            ^
../webkitgtk-2.4.8/Source/JavaScriptCore/jsc.cpp:339:108: warning: format '%s' expects argument of type 'char*', but argument 2 has type 'size_t {aka unsigned int}' [-Wformat=]
../webkitgtk-2.4.8/Source/JavaScriptCore/jsc.cpp:339:108: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]

../webkitgtk-2.4.8/Source/WebCore/xml/parser/XMLDocumentParserLibxml2.cpp: In member function 'void WebCore::XMLDocumentParser::error(WebCore::XMLErrors::ErrorType, const char*, va_list)':
../webkitgtk-2.4.8/Source/WebCore/xml/parser/XMLDocumentParserLibxml2.cpp:964:46: warning: function might be possible candidate for 'gnu_printf' format attribute [-Wsuggest-attribute=format]
     vsnprintf(m, sizeof(m) - 1, message, args);
                                              ^

In file included from ../webkitgtk-2.4.8/Source/JavaScriptCore/disassembler/ARM64/A64DOpcode.cpp:27:0:
../webkitgtk-2.4.8/Source/JavaScriptCore/disassembler/ARM64/A64DOpcode.h: In member function 'void JSC::ARM64Disassembler::A64DOpcode::appendUnsignedImmediate64(uint64_t)':
../webkitgtk-2.4.8/Source/JavaScriptCore/disassembler/ARM64/A64DOpcode.h:175:42: warning: unknown conversion type character 'l' in format [-Wformat=]
         bufferPrintf("#0x%llx", immediate);
                                          ^
../webkitgtk-2.4.8/Source/JavaScriptCore/disassembler/ARM64/A64DOpcode.h:175:42: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
../webkitgtk-2.4.8/Source/JavaScriptCore/disassembler/ARM64/A64DOpcode.h: In member function 'void JSC::ARM64Disassembler::A64DOpcode::appendPCRelativeOffset(uint32_t*, int32_t)':
../webkitgtk-2.4.8/Source/JavaScriptCore/disassembler/ARM64/A64DOpcode.h:180:74: warning: unknown conversion type character 'l' in format [-Wformat=]
         bufferPrintf("0x%llx", reinterpret_cast<uint64_t>(pc + immediate));
                                                                          ^
../webkitgtk-2.4.8/Source/JavaScriptCore/disassembler/ARM64/A64DOpcode.h:180:74: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
../webkitgtk-2.4.8/Source/JavaScriptCore/disassembler/ARM64/A64DOpcode.cpp: In member function 'void JSC::ARM64Disassembler::A64DOpcode::bufferPrintf(const char*, ...)':
../webkitgtk-2.4.8/Source/JavaScriptCore/disassembler/ARM64/A64DOpcode.cpp:162:110: warning: function might be possible candidate for 'gnu_printf' format attribute [-Wsuggest-attribute=format]
     m_bufferOffset += vsnprintf(m_formatBuffer + m_bufferOffset, bufferSize - m_bufferOffset, format, argList);
                                                                                                              ^

In file included from ../webkitgtk-2.4.8/Source/JavaScriptCore/tools/CodeProfile.cpp:32:0:
../webkitgtk-2.4.8/Source/JavaScriptCore/tools/ProfileTreeNode.h: In member function 'void JSC::ProfileTreeNode::dumpInternal(unsigned int)':
../webkitgtk-2.4.8/Source/JavaScriptCore/tools/ProfileTreeNode.h:102:89: warning: unknown conversion type character 'l' in format [-Wformat=]
                 static_cast<long long>(entry->value.count() - entry->value.childCount()));
                                                                                         ^
../webkitgtk-2.4.8/Source/JavaScriptCore/tools/ProfileTreeNode.h:102:89: warning: format '%s' expects argument of type 'char*', but argument 2 has type 'long long int' [-Wformat=]
../webkitgtk-2.4.8/Source/JavaScriptCore/tools/ProfileTreeNode.h:102:89: warning: unknown conversion type character 'l' in format [-Wformat=]
../webkitgtk-2.4.8/Source/JavaScriptCore/tools/ProfileTreeNode.h:102:89: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
../webkitgtk-2.4.8/Source/JavaScriptCore/tools/CodeProfile.cpp: In member function 'void JSC::CodeProfile::report()':
../webkitgtk-2.4.8/Source/JavaScriptCore/tools/CodeProfile.cpp:183:83: warning: unknown conversion type character 'l' in format [-Wformat=]
     dataLogF("Total samples: %lld\n", static_cast<long long>(profile.childCount()));
                                                                                   ^
../webkitgtk-2.4.8/Source/JavaScriptCore/tools/CodeProfile.cpp:183:83: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]