linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] docs: add extra integer types to printk-formats

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Message-ID: <CAKwvOdm4uCWCtSMVQDVTSKavpT0dCo+ayuwvoXtewmk+ksn5sA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 4 Mar 2019 09:59:48 -0800
From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Louis Taylor <louis@...gniz.eu>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        pmladek@...e.com, geert+renesas@...der.be,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com,
        Jon Flatley <jflat@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: add extra integer types to printk-formats

On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 12:10 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Mar 03, 2019 at 12:36:47PM +0000, Louis Taylor wrote:
> > A few commonly used integer types were absent from this table, so add
> > them.
>
> I'm not against the patch, but isn't obvious by reading POSIX and / or man
> printf(3)?

You'd think; but based on the sheer number of -Wformat warnings
(~450), I'm not so sure.  At least with this patch they're "above the
fold."

The kernel also has its own format flag extensions, and does not
implement %n (for good reason), so it's better to be explicit than
imply posix or glibc compat.
-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers