[U-Boot] puts() and newlines (was Re: Discussion topics / issues)

[Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de>]

On Wed 2014-10-15 10:40:12, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > First, we have a compatibility problem here.  GCC assumes that puts()
> > will add a newline character after the string; U-Boot puts() does NOT
> > do this.  So the GCC auto-converted printf()s will all be wrong, as
> > they are missing the newline. [1]
> 
> > [1] One might argue that this is a bug in U-Boot and should be fixed,
> > but that is another topic.
> 
> I believe we should fix that, yes.
> 
> I did quick grep,
> 
> pavel at duo:~/wagabuibui/u-boot$ grep -ri puts . | wc -l
> 4287
> 
> and that is probably too much to change in one go. So what about
> this?

Next step is probably

diff --git a/include/common.h b/include/common.h
index d5020c8..95b2377 100644
--- a/include/common.h
+++ b/include/common.h
@@ -836,6 +836,9 @@ int	tstc(void);
 /* stdout */
 void	putc(const char c);
 void	puts(const char *s);
+static inline void __puts(const char *s) { puts(s); }
+static inline void putsnl(const char *s) { puts(s); putc('\n'); }
+
 int	printf(const char *fmt, ...)
 		__attribute__ ((format (__printf__, 1, 2)));
 int	vprintf(const char *fmt, va_list args);

Then run 

sed 's/puts(\(.*\)\\n")/putsnl(\1")/' `find . -name "*.[ch]"`

... to get existing users converted. Then we can convert the rest to
to either __puts or putsnl, and finally get rid of putsnl and convert
it back to puts.

(Patch is >400KB, so I'll not post it here).

Best regards,
								Pavel
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