Re: [PATCH] docs: add extra integer types to printk-formats

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On Sun, Mar 03, 2019 at 12:36:47PM +0000, Louis Taylor wrote:
> A few commonly used integer types were absent from this table, so add
> them.

I'm not against the patch, but isn't obvious by reading POSIX and / or man
printf(3)?

> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/378

Thanks for the link.

It's interesting to see how compiler type mindset applies to fixing drivers and
hardware related code...

> Suggested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Louis Taylor <louis@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst b/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst
> index a7fae4538946..6f08b1b6240a 100644
> --- a/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/core-api/printk-formats.rst
> @@ -19,8 +19,16 @@ Integer types
>  		unsigned long		%lu or %lx
>  		long long		%lld or %llx
>  		unsigned long long	%llu or %llx
> +		short int		%hd or %hx
> +		unsigned short int	%hu or %hx
> +		char			%hhd or %hhx
> +		unsigned char		%hhu or %hhx
>  		size_t			%zu or %zx
>  		ssize_t			%zd or %zx
> +		s8			%hhd or %hhx
> +		u8			%hhu or %hhx
> +		s16			%hd or %hx
> +		u16			%hu or %hx
>  		s32			%d or %x
>  		u32			%u or %x
>  		s64			%lld or %llx
> -- 
> 2.20.1
> 

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko





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