Re: [PATCH 0/2] printf: add support for %de

[Rasmus Villemoes]

On 20/01/2020 10.32, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 10:57 AM Uwe Kleine-KÃnig
> <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> this is an reiteration of my patch from some time ago that introduced
>> %dE with the same semantic. Back then this resulted in the support for
>> %pe which was less contentious.
>>
> 
>> I still consider %de (now with a small 'e' to match %pe) useful.
> 
> Please, don't spread the extensions over the standard specifiers. The
> %p* extensions are enough for my opinion.
> NAK.
> 

As I think I already mentioned (and what led me to do the %pe), I'm with
Andy and Joe here, I don't think modifying the behaviour of stuff other
than %p is a good idea - especially not when it's only about saving a
few characters to avoid the ERR_PTR() wrapping.

Rasmus