linux-kernel - Re: How do I printk <type> correctly?

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Message-ID: <4908849B.8000408@oracle.com>
Date:	Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:43:23 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	dedekind@...radead.org
CC:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, ericvh@...il.com,
	mfasheh@...e.com
Subject: Re: How do I printk <type> correctly?

Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 08:34 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> It's in the C standard, which we don't try to put into Documentation/ AFAIK.
>>
>> section 6.5.3.4, The sizeof operator:
>>
>> 4 The value of the result is implementation-defined, and its type (an unsigned integer type)
>> is size_t, defined in <stddef.h> (and other headers).
> 
> Well, OK. I was more thinking about printing stuff like ino_t.
> UBIFS used %lu for this which was the source of warnings.

I've been thinking of adding (trying to add) Alexey's hints in the
Doc/ tree in some new file.

-- 
~Randy
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