Re: [PATCH] printf: Emit "SUCCESS" if NULL is passed for %pe

[Uwe Kleine-König]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 04:41:24PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 01:10:50PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > For code that emits a string representing a usual return value it's
> > convenient to have a 0 result in a string representation of success
> > instead of "00000000".
> 
> This is a controversial change. For APIs that comes to my mind it means
> "OPTIONAL resource NOT FOUND, while no error happened". Doe it mean success?
> I don't think so.

OK, agreed. Would you feed such a value unchecked to %pe today (i.e.
without my patch)?

Best regards
Uwe

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