Re: %j for printf(9)

Dag-Erling Smorgrav <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dima Dorfman <[email protected]> writes:
> > I would also like to solicit comments on what to do with %z; C99 says
> > this is the length modifier for size_t, but the kernel treats it as
> > signed hex.  This patch implements the C99 length modifier as %Z, but
> > that probably shouldn't stay.  IIRC, I couldn't find any place in the
> > kernel that we actually use %z; can it perhaps be removed?
> 
> des@des ~% egrep -r '%[^\" dious]+z' /sec/freebsd/current/src/sys
> /sec/freebsd/current/src/sys/ddb/db_examine.c:                          db_printf("%-*lz", width, (long)value);
> /sec/freebsd/current/src/sys/ddb/db_examine.c:          db_printf("%8lz", (long)addr);

As far as I can tell, these are just implementing %z for the examine
command.  If we remove %z from printf(9), we can probably remove it
from ddb examine, too.

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