> more %p grepping [filtering out all `%ps %pf %pb' variants] gives > a huge number of print outs that potentially can be broken now
Because people who introduce this stupid %p hashing can't be bothered to actually audit users: static int show_timer(struct seq_file *m, void *v) { ... seq_printf(m, "signal: %d/%p\n", timer->sigq->info.si_signo, timer->sigq->info.si_value.sival_ptr); Overall, this %px thing doesn't matter. Developers will quickly learn than %p gives some useless irreversible values and start using %px everywhere. Soon someone will use %px in the wrong place and new non-standard format specifier will be added.