Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] Correct way to format spufs file output. | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Sat, 21 Oct 2006 11:44:53 +1000 |
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On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 16:38 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Friday 20 October 2006 15:54, Dwayne Grant McConnell wrote: > > I think %0xllx is the way to go. I would even advocate changing > > signal1_type and signal2_type unless it is actually too dangerous. > > There is absolutely no reason why these should be hexadecimal, they > are basically implementing a bool. > > > Is there even a case where changing from %llu to %0xllx would break things? > > Perhaps with the combination of a old library with a new kernel? > > Right, a library or some script that has been written assuming there > is no leading 0x.
We might still want to "broadcast" that we might change that and see how much gets broken. It's very likely that nothing will.
Ben.
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