R devel - Mar 2018 - 64-bit integer type warning on windows

Dear list,

During the last two months, I spent a lot of time trying to remove the following
warnings of my package randtoolbox:

congruRand.c:180:3: warning: ISO C does not support the 'I64' ms_scanf
length modifier [-Wformat=]
   sscanf(params[0], "%" PRIu64 "\n", &inp_mod);

Please see
https://www.r-project.org/nosvn/R.check/r-devel-windows-ix86+x86_64/randtoolbox-00install.html

The warning is raised by the option -pedantic added when checking the package by
R-devel. This warning is due to the use of the macro PRIu64. Note that this
warning does not show up when I use PRIu64 with printf via Rprintf in other
parts of the file congruRand.c.

My first reaction to look at
https://msdn.microsoft.com/fr-fr/library/f9ezhzhs(v=vs.110).aspx is useless,
because R on windows uses Mingw-W64 integer types and not the MS version.

Then, I tried to find information in such as Write Portable Code by Brian Hook
and C11 (http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1570.pdf).

They do recommend to use the macro SCNu64 (reserved for scanf family) rather
than PRIu64 reserved for printf family functions.

Unfortunately when I check the package with R-devel, I still have the warning.

On GitHub, there are a version of mingw64 sources :
https://github.com/Alexpux/mingw-w64/ . It is explicitly written that SCNu64 is
I64u, see line 210 of
https://github.com/Alexpux/mingw-w64/blob/master/mingw-w64-headers/crt/inttypes.h

So, I was wondering if this warning was removable at all? Does anyone encounter
this issue?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks in advance, Christophe

PS: latest version of randtoolbox source code is here
https://r-forge.r-project.org/scm/viewvc.php/pkg/randtoolbox/?root=rmetrics
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Christophe Dutang
CEREMADE, Univ. Paris Dauphine, France
Web : http://dutangc.free.fr

It does not answer direcly your question, but have you tried "bit64"
CRAN package :)

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/bit64/index.html

On 13 March 2018 at 17:29, Christophe DUTANG wrote:
| So, I was wondering if this warning was removable at all? Does anyone
encounter this issue?

That is a pretty old topic.

Did you look into Writing R Extensions?  The first mention is

   * Do be very careful with passing arguments between R, C and FORTRAN
     code.  In particular, 'long' in C will be 32-bit on some R
     platforms (including 64-bit Windows), but 64-bit on most modern
     Unix and Linux platforms.  It is rather unlikely that the use of
     'long' in C code has been thought through: if you need a longer
     type than 'int' you should use a configure test for a C99/C++11
     type such as 'int_fast64_t' (and failing that, 'long long'
(8)) and
     typedef your own type to be 'long' or 'long long', or use
another
     suitable type (such as 'size_t').

     It is not safe to assume that 'long' and pointer types are the same
     size, and they are not on 64-bit Windows.  If you need to convert
     pointers to and from integers use the C99/C++11 integer types
     'intptr_t' and 'uintptr_t' (which are defined in the header
     '<stdint.h>' and are not required to be implemented by the
C99
     standard but are used in C code by R itself).

     Note that 'integer' in FORTRAN corresponds to 'int' in C on
all R
     platforms.

   [...]
   
   (8) but note that 'long long' is not a standard C++98 type, and C++
   compilers set up for strict checking will reject it.

so with C++11 you get by: simply make your package use 'CXX_STD =
CXX11'.

Dirk

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