On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 08:21:15AM +0000, David Laight wrote: > ... > > > + * This snprintf() call does two things: > > > + * - makes a NUL-terminated copy of the input string > > > + * - pads it with spaces > > > + */ > > > + snprintf(tmp, sizeof(tmp), "%s ", name); > > > > I can't say I like code where I have to count spaces in order to > > verify if the code is actually correct. > > What it wrong with "%-8.8s" ? There's nothing wrong with it, except lack of imagination on my side ;) Andy, care to to send a separate patch just for extmem.c?