Re: [PATCH] [3/7] Use shorter addresses in i386 segfault printks

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Jan 16 2008 - 22:27:34 EST


Harvey Harrison wrote:

Casting to (void *) and using %p is probably your best bet. That's what it really is anyway.

Note: in the kernel right now, %p doesn't have the leading 0x prefix, which it probably should...

Well, that won't exactly be the nicest looking solution in places, maybe
a shorthand could be developed for this, or could another format
specifier be added that implicitly does the (void *) cast? (%P perhaps)


Not without losing the ability of gcc to type-check printk arguments.

-hpa
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