Re: scripts/basic/fixdep: Complete error handling in print_cmdline()

SF Markus Elfring
2016-11-02T17:38:33Z

>>> + if (printf("cmd_%s := %s\n\n", target, cmdline) < 10) {
>>
>> Rather than scatter fragile magic numbers, like 10, throughout the
>> code, if you're hell-bent on checking for printf errors you could
>> write a little wrapper function that hid the magic number and bundled
>> up the errno stuff.
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>
> BTW, how the magic number "10" was calculated?

Does the passed format string indicate how many characters should be
printed at least?

Regards,
Markus