From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>
Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>,
ltt-dev@shafik.org, systemtap@sources.redhat.com,
linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org, michel.dagenais@polymtl.ca
Subject: Re: Linux Kernel Markers format string idea
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 14:48:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061226194813.GB20627@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061221162035.GA9609@Krystal>
Hi -
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 11:20:35AM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> [...] I just had an idea about a format string extension that would
> help fix the missing type checking with format strings for Linux
> Kernel Markers. [...] The idea is to add the type between brackets
> after the conversion specifier. For a pointer to a structure :
> "%p[struct mystruct *]" [...]
It's probably an improvement, though as it is still at the
programmers' discretion, it is less useful for checking and more as
documenting. I remain ambivalent about whether exposing this level of
detail (complex typing) is a good idea, or whether imposing a small
fixed set of types (string/number/blob) is better.
- FChE
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2006-12-21 16:20 Linux Kernel Markers format string idea Mathieu Desnoyers
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