Re: [PATCH -v1.1] x86, boot: Further compress CPUs bootup message

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Sun Sep 29 2013 - 05:15:38 EST


On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 04:13:29PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> For negative numbers presumably we need to d++ for the minus sign, no?

That's easy - the function is called num_digits, so we count only digits.

The real question is, is there a use case where we would need to count
the sign too or only the digits?

And since I can't be clairvoyant, I'll leave it to future generations to
decide what to do with the sign.

:-)

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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