Enhanced printk() merged
Enhanced printk() merged
Posted Jul 17, 2008 16:41 UTC (Thu) by meuh (guest, #22042)In reply to: Enhanced printk() merged by nix
Parent article: Enhanced printk() merged
Extending GCC to support some new kind of format string is also possible, sadly this can't be done dynamically, patching GCC is required. GCC already knows about other format string, see: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.3.0/gcc/Target-Format... http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.3.0/gcc/Function-Attr...
Posted Jul 17, 2008 17:41 UTC (Thu)
by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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Enhanced printk() merged
Yes indeed, and printk() is marked up with the printf attribute. The trick
is to find a way to define new format characters that doesn't cause GCC to
warn about all of them.
There were attempts in the past to make the format attributes dynamically
redefinable, but if I recall correctly the consensus in the end was that
this was simply too damn complicated.
(I wonder if what we need is loose versions of the format attribute's
archetypes, which warn about incorrect numbers of parameters and type
mismatches for format letters GCC knows about, but does not check format
letters that GCC doesn't know? As long as nobody tries to reimplement
something like .* which changes the number of arguments consumed, this
should work fine.)