Re: [Etherboot-developers] Q: Non-Standard printf?

[Eric W B. <ebi...@ln...>]

ke...@us... (Ken Yap) writes:

> >I'm trying to understand why the printf in etherboot is non-standard.
> >If this is just something that happened or if this that has a good reason
> >behind it.
> >As I share code between projects my biggest bug is that code like:
> >printf("%04x\n", foo);  
> >Fails and I get really strange debugging output.
> 
> You mean it doesn't pay attention to the width specifier?
Primarily.  Though I think I have seen a few other anomolies as well.

> That was never
> implemented, for space reasons. If you want to have better compatibility
> without using up much code space you could get the printf to ignore the
> width specifier.

I will look.  Given that this is a code space thing.  I will look very carefully
before touching it.

Eric