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From: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] lib/vsprintf: refactor duplicate code to xnumber()
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 23:20:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d1tq43ll.fsf@rasmusvillemoes.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h9j245ed.fsf@rasmusvillemoes.dk> (Rasmus Villemoes's message of "Mon, 28 Dec 2015 22:42:02 +0100")

On Mon, Dec 28 2015, Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> wrote:

>
> Is there any aspect of the passed-through printf_spec which isn't
> overridden in xnumber? The users are/will be various %p extensions,
> which probably means that no-one passes a non-default precision (gcc
> complains about %.*p), and the remaining possible flags (PLUS, LEFT,
> SPACE) are useless and/or impossible to pass to %p

Actually, LEFT can be passed to %p (or get set by passing a negative
field width via %*p), which would be actively harmful: When LEFT is set,
number() explicitly removes the ZEROPAD flag, so we'd get "0xabcdef  "
instead of "0x00abcdef".

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-12-28 22:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-28 18:18 [PATCH v1 1/1] lib/vsprintf: refactor duplicate code to xnumber() Andy Shevchenko
2015-12-28 18:25 ` Joe Perches
2015-12-28 19:02   ` Andy Shevchenko
2015-12-29  0:18     ` Joe Perches
2015-12-28 21:42   ` Rasmus Villemoes
2015-12-28 22:20     ` Andy Shevchenko
2015-12-28 23:01       ` Rasmus Villemoes
2015-12-29 15:07       ` Andy Shevchenko
2015-12-28 22:20     ` Rasmus Villemoes [this message]
2015-12-28 22:29       ` Andy Shevchenko

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