Re: [PATCH 1/3] lib/vsprintf: Prepare for more general use of ptr_to_id()

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Mon Oct 08 2018 - 10:37:45 EST


Hi Andy,

On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 4:25 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 01:05:02PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > - Make the ptr argument const, to avoid adding casts in future
> > callers,
>
> > - Add a forward declaration, to avoid moving large blocks of code.
>
> How big it would be? ptr_to_id() itself plus...

... all the randomization helpers.
And ptr_to_id() needs pointer_string(), string(), widen_string(), number(),
and move_right().

118 insertions(+), 120 deletions(-)

Is that acceptable?

> > +static char *ptr_to_id(char *buf, char *end, const void *ptr,
> > + struct printf_spec spec);
-
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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