Re: [PATCH] NIPQUAD macro broken on big endian

Jakub Jelinek (jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz)
Thu, 8 Oct 1998 08:32:02 +0200 (MET DST)

> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> said:
> > - it's not so much slowness as code expansion (NIPQUAD is only used
> > by various printk's, so performance per se is secondary)
>
> So why not teach the kernel's vsprintf a new format code and
> get rid of this hack? (Wasn't such a format in the kernel at one time?)

Because there is no way at the moment how to teach gcc about the new format
code, and as we use compiler warnings for formatting, you'd get a bunch of
warnings all the time.

Cheers,
Jakub
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