[U-Boot] CFG_64BIT_xxx and friends

[Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>]

On Sunday 07 September 2008, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> > > 5) Delete al references to CFG_64BIT_VSPRINTF and CFG_64BIT_STRTOUL
> > > and unconditionally enable it for all boards.
> > >
> > > Any takers to submit a patch?
> >
> > If possible not because it will increase the size of u-boot for board
> > which not need it. When we will have kconfig it will be simple to
> > activated it for ppc and other board automaticly.
>
> You try to beat me on being the guard dog of memory footprint? That'll
> be a hard job ;-)
>
> Seriously: How much of code size are we talking about? And activating
> / deactivation the feature is  not  so  trivial  as  it  affects  the
> printf() format specifiers we have to use.

I'm with Wolfgang here and think it would be best to unconditionally support 
the 64bit printf format too.

Best regards,
Stefan

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