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Message-ID: <CAK7LNATvUo7gKFG9NjtJarTBM508ntf2v6yo5tXsmDoMcUrJVA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2023 20:33:56 +0900
From: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
To: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@...sle.eu>
Cc: linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: single-quote the format string of printf
On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 10:00 AM Nicolas Schier <nicolas@...sle.eu> wrote:
>
> On Tue 29 Aug 2023 20:35:31 GMT, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > Use single-quotes to avoid escape sequences (\\n).
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
> > ---
>
> Is this really necessary? Testing w/ GNU Make 4.3, bash 5.2.15 or
> dash 0.5.12-6 and a stupid Makefile snippet I cannot see any difference
> between these three:
>
> print:
> @printf "hello med single-backslash and double quotes\n"
> @printf 'hello med single-backslash and single quotes\n'
> @printf "hello med double-backslash and double quotes\\n"
>
> Only double-backslash+n in single-quotes does not work, for obvious
> reasons.
You are right.
I was misunderstanding the backslash-escaping in double-quotes.
I always used single-quotes when I wanted to avoid
escape sequences.
The following POSIX spec applies here:
2.2.3 Double-Quotes
The <backslash> shall retain its special meaning as an escape character
(see Escape Character (Backslash)) only when followed by one of the
following characters when considered special:
$ ` " \ <newline>
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html
All of "\\n", "\n", '\n' are the same.
--
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada
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