[U-Boot] [PATCH] lib/vsprintf.c: don't special-case pointers to address null
Joe Hershberger
joe.hershberger at gmail.com
Tue Oct 30 20:23:17 CET 2012
Hi Wolfgang,
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:
> The %p format of printf() would print a pointer to address null as
> "(null)". This makes sense in a real OS where a NULL pointer must
> never be dereferenced, but this is a bootloader, and there are cases
> where accessing the data at address null makes perfect sense.
>
> Remove the special case in lib/vsprintf.c using "#if 0" with a comment
> to make clear this was an intentional change and to stop re-adding
> this code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de>
> ---
Acked-by: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger at ni.com>
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