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I guess this is a situation it misses.

You miss the point of compiler intrinsics.


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Re^5: 64-bit *nix/gcc expertise required
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Dec 24, 2010 at 22:03 UTC

    Quite the contrary. If printf wasn't an instrinsic, the compiler couldn't even give you warnings that you're risking getting garbage or causing segfaults.

    • Implicit coercion from int to pointer: %p expects a pointer, but you pass it an ptrdiff_t. (twice)
    • Data doesn't match format specifier: %x expects (a pointer to) an int or unsigned int, but you pass it (a pointer to) a ptrdiff_t (thrice).

    The other warning is for void main. I guess that's no longer kosher?

    So the minimal change is:

    • Add casts to the parameters of printf to they match the format string.
    • Adjust the return value of main.
    • Avoid MS-specific extensions.
    #include <stdint.h> #include <stdio.h> #define ALIGN_BITS ( sizeof(void*) >> 1 ) #define BIT_BITS 3 #define BYTE_BITS 14 int check_new( uintptr_t p ) { uintptr_t slot = ( p >> (BYTE_BITS + BIT_BITS + ALIGN_BITS) ); uintptr_t byte = ( p >> (ALIGN_BITS + BIT_BITS)) & 0x00003fffULL; uintptr_t bit = ( p >> ALIGN_BITS) & 0x00000007ULL; uintptr_t nop = p & 0x3ULL; printf( "address: %p slot: %p byte: %4x bit: %4x nop:%x\n", (void*)p, (void*)slot, (unsigned)byte, (unsigned)bit, (unsigne +d)nop ); return 1; } int main( void ) { uintptr_t p; for( p = 123456ULL; p < ( 1ULL << 31 ); p += ( 1ULL << 29 ) ) { check_new( p ); } return 0; }
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