From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle: Printing numbers in parentheses is fine
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:18:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17982.1191118736@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 29 Sep 2007 03:51:56 PDT." <20070929035156.cd6fe860.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 03:51:56 PDT, Andrew Morton said:
> Printing something like
>
> bytes remaining: 0x12 (18)
>
> is a quite logical thing to do, although pretty darm pointless.
On the other hand, printing this:
magic number: 0x2710
probably doesn't ring any bells, but if you changed that format to be
"magic number: %x (%d)",foo,foo
you'll almost certainly sit up and ask "Where the fsck did *that* come from?"
(unless you're a *lot* better at doing hex conversions in your head than I).
Yeah, *usually* pointless, but it has its place sometimes....
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-30 2:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-29 10:25 Jean Delvare
2007-09-29 10:51 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-29 17:19 ` David Brownell
2007-09-29 18:29 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-29 18:53 ` David Brownell
2007-09-29 20:13 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-29 22:30 ` David Brownell
2007-09-29 22:51 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-29 22:55 ` Måns Rullgård
2007-09-30 10:28 ` Jean Delvare
2007-09-30 2:18 ` Valdis.Kletnieks [this message]
2007-09-30 10:11 ` Jean Delvare
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