On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 at 15:32, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> But if you look more closely, you'll see that the way the buffer is
> managed is actually not as a word array at all, but using
>
> char *str, *end;
>
> instead of word pointers.
Oh, and in addition to the smaller-than-int types ('%c' and '%hd'
etc), pointers that get dereferenced also get written as a byte string
to that word array. There might be other cases too.
So it's really a fairly odd kind of "sometimes words, sometimes not"
array, with the size of the array given in words.
That binary printf is very strange.
Linus
