if compiling with -fformat-extensions). Gcc's format checker never
actually supported %q length specifiers. It treats %q as an alias
for %ll, which is correct if quad_t is long long (e.g., on i386's)
and broken otherwise (e.g., on alphas).
quad_t's currently should be printed in the same way that they
already need to be printed to avoid compiler warnings on all
supported systems: cast them to a standard type that is at least
as large (long or long long) and use the length specifier for that
(%l or %ll). This is problematic since long long isn't standard
yet. C9x's intmax_t should be implemented soon.
Don't accept %L length specifiers in the kernel either. The only
legitimate ones are for long doubles, but the kernel doesn't even
support plain doubles. (gcc bogusly accepts %Ld as an alias for
%lld, and it sometimes prints "q" in error messages about "ll" and
"L" length specifiers, becauses it represents all these specifiers
as 'q'.)
Submitted by: bde
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