Re: resource_size_t printk whinging

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> I submitted this patch a while ago, but nobody commented on it.
> All these casts of resource_size_t to (unsigned long long) seem horribly
> wasteful to me...
> 
> Of course, to add a new format qualifier, we lose out on checking the format
> string by gcc... Nowadays, this role can be done by sparse.

But we don't run sparse on every build. We do run gcc (a lot).

> --- a/lib/vsprintf.c
> +++ b/lib/vsprintf.c
> @@ -477,6 +478,8 @@ int vsnprintf(char *buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, va_list args)
>  			num = (unsigned short) va_arg(args, int);
>  			if (flags & SIGN)
>  				num = (signed short) num;
> +		} else if (qualifier == 'R' || qualifier == 'R') {
                                         ^                   ^
One of them must be lowercase `r'.

> +			num = va_arg(args, resource_size_t);
>  		} else {
>  			num = va_arg(args, unsigned int);
>  			if (flags & SIGN)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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