Re: [PATCH 14/22] parisc: %pF is only for function pointers

[Scott Wood]

On Thu, 2015-03-12 at 08:11 -0400, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-03-11 at 22:13 -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> > Use %pS for actual addresses, otherwise you'll get bad output
> > on arches like ppc64 where %pF expects a function descriptor.  Even on
> > other architectures, refrain from setting a bad example that people
> > copy.
> 
> Are you sure about this?  Parisc64 is a function description
> architecture.  There may be a misunderstanding about what
> __builtin_return_address(0) is supposed to return, but I'm certain the
> person who added the code thought it returned a function pointer, which
> on parisc64 would be a descriptor.

I wasn't aware that parisc64 used descriptors, but I don't see how you'd
get one out of __builtin_return_address(0) since it's not usually a
function entry point (plus, GCC documents it as returning void *).

-Scott


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