Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | | Subject | Re: [RESEND PATCH 0/2] Make functions of dev_<level> macros, recursive vsnprintf | | From | Joe Perches <> | | Date | Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:35:54 -0800 |
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On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 14:57 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Sat, 6 Mar 2010, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > I'm not convinced. We pass that 'printf_spec' around a lot, including > > nesting. Not as a pointer, either. > > Btw, I wonder if those fields could become bitfields, or 'unsigned char' > etc. That printf_spec really is unnecessarily big. It should _easily_ fit > in a single register on a 64-bit platform, possibly even a 32-bit one (we > could limit field width and precision to 5 bits, for example)
I believe 32 bits isn't possible.
type:6 flags:8 width:8 base:6 precision:6 qualifier:8
So maybe something like this:
lib/vsprintf.c | 22 ++++++++++++---------- 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) --- diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c index af4aaa6..fdee7f7 100644 --- a/lib/vsprintf.c +++ b/lib/vsprintf.c @@ -408,12 +408,12 @@ enum format_type { }; struct printf_spec { - enum format_type type; - int flags; /* flags to number() */ - int field_width; /* width of output field */ - int base; - int precision; /* # of digits/chars */ - int qualifier; + u16 type; + s16 field_width; /* width of output field */ + u8 flags; /* flags to number() */ + u8 base; + s8 precision; /* # of digits/chars */ + u8 qualifier; }; static char *number(char *buf, char *end, unsigned long long num, @@ -1333,7 +1333,7 @@ int vsnprintf(char *buf, size_t size, const char *fmt, va_list args) break; case FORMAT_TYPE_NRCHARS: { - int qualifier = spec.qualifier; + u8 qualifier = spec.qualifier; if (qualifier == 'l') { long *ip = va_arg(args, long *); @@ -1619,7 +1619,7 @@ do { \ case FORMAT_TYPE_NRCHARS: { /* skip %n 's argument */ - int qualifier = spec.qualifier; + u8 qualifier = spec.qualifier; void *skip_arg; if (qualifier == 'l') skip_arg = va_arg(args, long *); @@ -1885,7 +1885,9 @@ int vsscanf(const char *buf, const char *fmt, va_list args) char *next; char digit; int num = 0; - int qualifier, base, field_width; + u8 qualifier; + u8 base; + s16 field_width; bool is_sign; while (*fmt && *str) { @@ -1963,7 +1965,7 @@ int vsscanf(const char *buf, const char *fmt, va_list args) { char *s = (char *)va_arg(args, char *); if (field_width == -1) - field_width = INT_MAX; + field_width = SHORT_MAX; /* first, skip leading white space in buffer */ str = skip_spaces(str);
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