On Tue, 2013-09-17 at 18:08 -0500, danielfsan...@att.net wrote: > This adds an extension for the integral format specifier suffix of 'e', > so that the format %[duxXo]e will result in printing an number (as > before) in addition to a name and descrption for an error code, if such > support is enabled and a name and descrption is found. > > My initial thought was to use the glibc extension of '%m', but this > format specifier uses the value of libc's errno and adding a value > breaks gcc's printf parsing. I'm not convinced that the 'e' extension > is optimal, although there are only four instances of this pattern in > the kernel that would need to be changed. > > git grep -E '".*%[#0\ +\-]*[0-9]*[hljzt]*[idoxXu]e' > > Alternatively, 'E' was another thought for a suffix as well.
I'd much rather see another %p extension used instead of generating odd output given normal printf formats. %pE might work -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
