Re: [PATCH] use %p for pointers

From: Jakub Jelinek
Date: Wed Oct 11 2006 - 16:28:52 EST


On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 11:45:10AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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.

It is correct that gcc warns about %#p, that invokes undefined behavior
in ISO C99.

Jakub
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