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

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>> You mean it doesn't pay attention to the width specifier?
>Primarily.  Though I think I have seen a few other anomolies as well.

You should have seen it before the big rework circa 4.7.x. It used %b to
print uchar, %x to print short, and %X to print int. Klaus and I made it
conform to the glibc standard of %hhx, %hx and %x and the # modifier at
least. Also it printed into a fixed sized buffer so I was always worried
someone would print a long string. Now it doesn't matter how long a
string it's passed.

It made things a bit more familiar for people coming from mainstream
printf.  Direct compatibility with other sources wasn't a concern then,
although I probably should have made it handle width specifiers so that
porting from Linux drivers would have been slightly easier.

>> 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.

Simplest would be to skip [0-9 .] after seeing %.