linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] use %p for pointers

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0610112112450.9822@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
Date:	Wed, 11 Oct 2006 21:13:27 +0200 (MEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
cc:	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>, torvalds@...l.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] use %p for pointers


>> %p will do no such thing in the kernel.  As for the difference...  %x
>> might happen to work on some architectures (where sizeof(void
>> *)==sizeof(int)),
>> but it's not portable _and_ not right.  %p is proper C for that...

Ah I see your point, but then again, %lx could have been used. Unless 
there is some arch where sizeof(long) != sizeof(void *).

> It's really too bad gcc bitches about %#p, because that's arguably The Right
> Thing.

ack. Make a bug report perhaps?

	-`J'
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