How to print f size_t without warning in mingw-w64 gcc 7.1?

Question

I am using the mingw-w64 (x64) minGW plug prepared on nuwen.net. This is from gcc version 7.1:

gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 7.1.0

I am compiling this program:

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
    size_t a = 100;
    printf("a=%lu\n",a);
    printf("a=%llu\n",a);
    printf("a=%zu\n",a);
    printf("a=%I64u\n",a);
}

with warnings and c11 standard:

gcc -Wall -Wextra -Wpedantic -std=c11 test_size_t.c

and I get the following warnings:

   test_size_t.c: In function 'main':
    test_size_t.c:6:14: warning: format '%lu' expects argument of type 'long unsigned int', but argument 2 has type 'size_t {aka long long unsigned int}' [-Wformat=]
      printf("a=%lu\n",a);
                ~~^
                %I64u
    test_size_t.c:6:14: warning: format '%lu' expects argument of type 'long unsigned int', but argument 2 has type 'size_t {aka long long unsigned int}' [-Wformat=]
      printf("a=%lu\n",a);
                ~~^
                %I64u
    test_size_t.c:7:14: warning: unknown conversion type character 'l' in format [-Wformat=]
      printf("a=%llu\n",a);
                  ^
    test_size_t.c:7:9: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
      printf("a=%llu\n",a);
             ^~~~~~~~~~
    test_size_t.c:7:14: warning: unknown conversion type character 'l' in format [-Wformat=]
      printf("a=%llu\n",a);
                  ^
    test_size_t.c:7:9: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
      printf("a=%llu\n",a);
             ^~~~~~~~~~
    test_size_t.c:8:13: warning: unknown conversion type character 'z' in format [-Wformat=]
      printf("a=%zu\n",a);
                 ^
    test_size_t.c:8:9: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
      printf("a=%zu\n",a);
             ^~~~~~~~~
    test_size_t.c:8:13: warning: unknown conversion type character 'z' in format [-Wformat=]
      printf("a=%zu\n",a);
                 ^
    test_size_t.c:8:9: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
      printf("a=%zu\n",a);
             ^~~~~~~~~
    test_size_t.c:9:9: warning: ISO C does not support the 'I64' ms_printf length modifier [-Wformat=]
      printf("a=%I64u\n",a);
         ^~~~~~~~~~~
    test_size_t.c:9:9: warning: ISO C does not support the 'I64' ms_printf length modifier [-Wformat=]

I would like to print the file size_t without warning, but in this situation I do not know the correct format specifier.

Answer 1

The problem is not the compiler, but the C library. MinGW uses Microsoft Visual C Runtime ( msvcrt), which only matchesc89and does not support the format specifier z.

Here you can safely print size_twhile using MinGW:

#include <inttypes.h>
#include <stdio.h>

#ifdef _WIN32
#  ifdef _WIN64
#    define PRI_SIZET PRIu64
#  else
#    define PRI_SIZET PRIu32
#  endif
#else
#  define PRI_SIZET "zu"
#endif

int main(void)
{
    size_t mySize = 24;

    printf("%" PRI_SIZET "\n", mySize);
}

win64 , PRIu64 msvcrt - I64u. GCC -Wno-pedantic-ms-format.

---

, long long ( PRIu64 32- 64- ), msvcrt ll.

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edit: M.MM , stdio , MinGW, C11 #define __USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO 1. , msvcrt, , , .

Answer 2

, , , __USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO:

#define __USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO 1

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
    size_t a = 100;
    printf("a=%lu\n",a);
    printf("a=%llu\n",a);
    printf("a=%zu\n",a);
    printf("a=%I64u\n",a);
}

, , gcc :

warning: format '%lu' expects argument of type 'long unsigned int', but argument 2 has type 'size_t' [-Wformat=]  
warning: ISO C does not support the 'I' printf flag [-Wformat=]  
warning: format '%u' expects argument of type 'unsigned int', but argument 2 has type 'size_t' [-Wformat=]