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Subject: Re: [RFA record/replay] cast to avoid compiler warning
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Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 08:44:38AM -0700, Michael Snyder wrote:
>> Yes, but we don't know that gdb will always be built using gnulib.
> 
> Gnulib is a library of portability replacement routines that GDB can
> import.  We already use it for stdint.h and memchr / memmem.  We could
> easily add it for further routines.

OK.  So, would you favor using the "%zd" modifier instead of a cast?

I mainly didn't do that because there were no existing instances
of it in gdb now, but I was just being conservative...