Losing the magic
Losing the magic
Posted Dec 7, 2022 17:41 UTC (Wed) by abatters (✭ supporter ✭, #6932)In reply to: Losing the magic by sima
Parent article: Losing the magic
As an example of the kernel moving in the unsafe direction, the kernel has lots of special printk format specifiers for specific pointer types that are not typechecked by the compiler.
https://docs.kernel.org/core-api/printk-formats.html
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