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[Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2020-01-02 17:19, Jon Evans wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Context: 
> https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/merge_requests/28#note_264910682
>
> I have heard there are issues using "%zu" format specifier on 
> Windows/mingw, because mingw links against a very old Windows library 
> that does not support the C99 standard.
>
> I have also heard that this isn't an issue anymore because of 
> __USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO in wxWidgets.
>
> I tried to reproduce this problem on my Windows 10 machine but couldn't 
> -- using %zu works fine.
>
> Does anyone know if this is still a problem on any of our supported 
> platforms?
>
> Thanks,
> -Jon

I learned that this was a problem from JP.  See commit 
https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/commit/17b18637f

Perhaps he can shed some light on the specifics.

-S


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