Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965224AbWJKSpu (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:45:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965226AbWJKSpu (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:45:50 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:5323 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965224AbWJKSpt (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:45:49 -0400 Message-ID: <452D3BB6.8040200@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:45:10 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060913) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Al Viro CC: Jan Engelhardt , torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] use %p for pointers References: <20061011145441.GB29920@ftp.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20061011145441.GB29920@ftp.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 578 Lines: 15 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. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/