Re: How do I printk <type> correctly?

From: David John
Date: Thu Oct 23 2008 - 07:51:19 EST


Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> If variable is of Type use printk format specifier.
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> int %d or %x
> unsigned int %u or %x
> long %ld ot %lx
> unsigned long %lu or %lx
> long long %lld or %llx
> unsigned long long %llu or %llx
> size_t %zu or %zx
> ssize_t %zd or %zx
>
> Raw pointer value SHOULD be printed with %p.
>
> u64 SHOULD be printed with %llu/%llx, (unsigned long long):
>
> printk("%llu", (unsigned long long)u64_var);
>
> s64 SHOULD be printed with %lld/%llx, (long long):
>
> printk("%lld", (long long)s64_var);
>
> If type is dependent on config option (sector_t), use format specifier
> of biggest type and explicitly cast to it.
>
> Reminder: sizeof() result is of type size_t.
>
> Thank you for your cooperation.
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Useful list, but I think there are more format specifiers available with
printk though.

David.
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