From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jengelh@medozas.de
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Change %Z to %z in printf
Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:59:53 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090307.145953.143128544.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.00.0903071952180.19385@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 19:54:45 +0100 (CET)
> I found out that %Z is actually a deprecated libc5-ism as printf(3) of
> man-pages 3.17 dated 2008-12-19 tells me.
>
> In ${kernel}/lib/vsprintf.c, I find the following note and wondered
> if there might be any objections to going back to 'z'.
GCC's printf formatting checks only started recognizing %z a few
releases ago. We kept the %Z in there so that with all gcc versions
we won't get warnings.
We've recently increased the minimal GCC version, so going to %z might
be OK now.
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2009-03-07 18:54 Jan Engelhardt
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