Re: RFC: introduce struct ksymbol

[Joe Perches]

On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 18:09 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> The only problem is the end result:
> 
> %pSnosm, %pSno, %pSosm, ...
> 
> One could end up stuck reading such a format, trying
> to guess if the developer wanted to print the symbol +
> "nosm" or something...
> 
> But since I don't see any point in printing nosm directly after
> a symbol... :)

You couldn't do that anymore anyway.

The %p<TYPE> convention already swallows all
alphanumeric characters that immediately follow %p.

vsprintf.c line 1043
		case FORMAT_TYPE_PTR:
			str = pointer(fmt+1, str, end, va_arg(args, void *),
				      spec);
			while (isalnum(*fmt))
				fmt++;
			break;


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