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From: Phil Goembel <phil-goembel@wi.rr.com>
To: Dieter Kedrowitsch <dieter.kedrowitsch@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Console output corruption
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 09:50:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1271602213.19039.16.camel@castle> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ba3128e11003101025medb7497j9c1b8d1bdb7ea263@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 13:25 -0500, Dieter Kedrowitsch wrote:
> Hans, thanks for the reply.
<snip>
> If anyone who is still following the list has the time and ability to
> help me out, please feel free to chime in!
> 
> Thanks!

In elks/kernel/printk.c is the following code for parsing a format
string (line 139, right after detecting a '%'):

    width = zero = '0';
    if (c == '0')
        zero++;
    while (c >= '0' && c <= '9') {
        width *= 10;
        width += c - '0';
        c = *fmt++;
    }
 
Notice the width is being set to the value of an ASCII '0' character. I
think it should have been set to the integer value 0 (zero) instead.

It looks like, by default, all fields will have a width of whatever the
ASCII code for '0' (48?).

Phil


  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-18 14:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-10 14:28 Console output corruption Dieter Kedrowitsch
2010-03-10 17:53 ` Hans
2010-03-10 18:25   ` Dieter Kedrowitsch
2010-04-18 14:50     ` Phil Goembel [this message]
2010-04-18 15:17       ` Mario Frasca
2010-04-18 15:45         ` Phil Goembel
2010-04-18 16:07           ` Mario Frasca
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-04-18 16:34 Hans
2010-04-18 18:40 ` Phil Goembel
2010-04-18 20:04   ` Mario Frasca
     [not found]     ` <v2w5a4d65ae1004181614m86200731mcc4a1fcab0cc3a56@mail.gmail.com>
2010-04-19  1:12       ` Kirn Gill
2010-04-19 14:05         ` Mario Frasca
2010-04-19 14:35           ` Mario Frasca

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