Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 00:12:27 +0000 From: Dima Dorfman <dima@trit.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: audit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: %j for printf(9) Message-ID: <20020528001227.E5D3E3E5E@turbine.trit.org> In-Reply-To: <xzpg00jazbp.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@ofug.org on "23 May 2002 13:16:58 %2B0200"
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> wrote:
> Dima Dorfman <dima@trit.org> writes:
> > I would also like to solicit comments on what to do with %z; C99 says
> > this is the length modifier for size_t, but the kernel treats it as
> > signed hex. This patch implements the C99 length modifier as %Z, but
> > that probably shouldn't stay. IIRC, I couldn't find any place in the
> > kernel that we actually use %z; can it perhaps be removed?
>
> des@des ~% egrep -r '%[^\" dious]+z' /sec/freebsd/current/src/sys
> /sec/freebsd/current/src/sys/ddb/db_examine.c: db_printf("%-*lz", width, (long)value);
> /sec/freebsd/current/src/sys/ddb/db_examine.c: db_printf("%8lz", (long)addr);
As far as I can tell, these are just implementing %z for the examine
command. If we remove %z from printf(9), we can probably remove it
from ddb examine, too.
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