On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 14:49:46 +0800 Qu Wenruo <wqu@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > +/* A simple wraper to for error() from btrfs-progs */ > +#define error(...) { printf(__VA_ARGS__); printf("\n"); } Is this from btrfs-progs? I don't like these macros much, I prefer to use static inline functions. static inline void error(const char *fmt, ...) { printf(fmt, __builtin_va_arg_pack()); printf("\n"); } Attribute for printf can be added to check printf specifiers: __attribute__((format (__printf__, 1, 2))) It is possible that this won't compile when optimizations are disabled. In that case more attributes are needed __always_inline __attribute__((__gnu_inline__)) These could be defined as a macro in include/linux/compiler-gcc.h #define __gnu_inline __always_inline __attribute__((__gnu_inline__)) Marek