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Subject: Re: [PATCH] KEYS: trusted: fix -Wvarags warning
From:   James Bottomley <jejb@linux.ibm.com>
To:     Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com>, ndesaulniers@google.com,
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Date:   Fri, 12 Oct 2018 08:22:39 -0700
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On Fri, 2018-10-12 at 10:13 -0500, Denis Kenzior wrote:
> Hi James,
> 
> > > So can't we simply use 'bool' or uint32 as the type for h3
> > > instead of re-ordering everything
> > 
> > The problem is the standard is ambiguious.  The only thing that's
> > guaranteed to work for all time is a char *.  If you want to keep
> > the order, what I'd suggest is inserting a dummy pointer argument
> > which is always expected to be NULL between the h3 and the varargs.
> 
> So maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but the issue seems to be
> that unsigned char is promoted to 'unsigned char *' by Clang and
> probably unsigned int or int by gcc.
> 
> So instead of having unsigned char h3, can't we simply have bool h3
> or unsigned int h3?

Given the ambiguity in the standards, the safe thing that will work for
all time and all potential compilers is a char *

James