Re: [PATCH] use %p for pointers

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Oct 11 2006 - 14:46:10 EST


Al Viro wrote:

%p will do no such thing in the kernel. As for the difference... %x
might happen to work on some architectures (where sizeof(void *)==sizeof(int)),
but it's not portable _and_ not right. %p is proper C for that...

It's really too bad gcc bitches about %#p, because that's arguably The Right Thing.

-hpa
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