Re: [PATCH 4/6] trace: Replace seq_printf by simpler equivalents

From: Joe Perches
Date: Wed Nov 05 2014 - 19:47:56 EST


On Wed, 2014-11-05 at 19:38 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Nov 2014 14:51:48 -0800 Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[]
> > > I know that it's considered bad form
> > > to split strings like this, but I consider this one of the exceptions
> > > to the rule.
> >
> > Why is that?
> >
> > btw: when the strings fragments are put on the same line,
> > it's nicer to take out the intermediate joining " " bits too.
> >
> > I'd've probably used 2 seq_puts calls like:
> >
> > seq_puts(m, " Function Hit Time Avg s^2\n");
> > seq_puts(m, " -------- --- ---- --- ---\n");
> >
>
> In this case it's just that I hate that big white space followed by
> content.
>
> Maybe I'll change my mind in the future, but for now, I'd rather just
> leave it as is.

My eyes generally skip over the embedded whitespace.

It's also generally less code space to use a single format string
instead of something like:

printf(" %-39s%-7s%-16s%-16s%s\n", "Function", "Hit", "Time", "Avg", "s^2");


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