Re: [PATCH] use %p for pointers

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Wed Oct 11 2006 - 15:15:37 EST



>> %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...

Ah I see your point, but then again, %lx could have been used. Unless
there is some arch where sizeof(long) != sizeof(void *).

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

ack. Make a bug report perhaps?

-`J'
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