Re: Tracing feature in the client side

> What version of clang do you use to get this warning?
> I used "Debian clang version 3.6.2-3" with -Wformat but did not get this
> warning.

As I wrote in the first post, I was using clang 3.7.0. (This is the
compiler currently used in Chrome's Native Client SDK.)


On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 2:01 PM, Ludovic Rousseau
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> 2016-03-11 13:49 GMT+01:00 Maksim Ivanov <[email protected]>:
>>
>> Hello Ludovic,
>>
>> >>
>> >> Second, there is an inconsistency between the printf format specifier
>> >> and the passed value in the trace function, that produces a warning.
>> >> E.g. with clang 3.7.0:
>> >>
>> >> > pcsc-lite/src-1.8.15/src/winscard_clnt.c:162:14: error: format
>> >> > specifies type 'unsigned long' but the argument has type 'pthread_t'
>> >> >       (aka 'struct __nc_basic_thread_data *') [-Werror,-Wformat]
>> >> >                 direction, pthread_self(), func);
>> >> >                            ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> >
>> >
>> > Can you propose a patch for that?
>> >
>> > pthread_t may not be a numerical value. It may be a structure.
>> > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1759794/how-to-print-pthread-t
>>
>> I could propose a patch, but in that case we would have to bother with
>> licensing (at least, Google Inc. will have to be included into the
>> copyright authors list).
>
>
> :-)
>
>>
>> Anyway, I don't have a very nice solution for this problem too.
>> Simple, but theoretically non-portable, way would be to cast pthread_t
>> to 64-bit integer type (for example, that's how it's done in Chromium
>> - as the last-resort solution on the platforms without more useful
>> mechanisms:
>> <https://cs.chromium.org/#chromium/src/base/threading/platform_thread_posix.cc&l=128>
>> ).
>
>
> That is also what I had in mind as an easy solution.
>
>>
>> Portable, but tedious, way would be to write a function that dumps the
>> passed data byte-by-byte.
>>
>> IMO, the simplest solution with casting may be enough, as this anyway
>> applies to the code that is disabled by default.
>
>
> What version of clang do you use to get this warning?
> I used "Debian clang version 3.6.2-3" with -Wformat but did not get this
> warning.
>
> Bye
>
> --
>  Dr. Ludovic Rousseau
>
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