[U-Boot] [PATCH] ppc4xx: Enable support for 64bit printf on all PPC4xx variants

[Stefan Roese]

On Thursday 09 July 2009 00:18:54 Jerry Van Baren wrote:
> Regardless of the in/out debate, we should print a warning if %ll is
> used but not supported.  I would suggest simply printing the "%lld" (or
> whatever the format is) and pop two longs from the varargs.  That would
> make it clear something is missing and probably wrong.
>
> I don't like printing half and discarding half: it will be erroneous
> with no warning if the upper half != 0.  It would also have endian
> complications since the half you want to discard depends on the
> machine's endianness (not insurmountable).
>
> One possible enhancement is to special-case %ll[0-9]*[Xx] and treat it
> as as two %08lx formats.  Hmmm, this would need correct endian handling
> too. :-/

All this would increase the code size for those boards not supporting the 
64bit printf format. Not sure by how much, but I suggest to just fix the 
problem by supporting this format correctly instead of adding new code to 
print some warnings here.

Best regards,
Stefan

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