[PATCH] tiny-printf: Support %i

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Tue Apr 14 05:03:54 CEST 2020


On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 03:17:16AM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On 4/14/20 1:27 AM, Tom Rini wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 08:54:49PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > 
> >> The most basic printf("%i", value) formating string was missing,
> >> add it for the sake of convenience.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>
> >> Cc: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> >> Cc: Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de>
> >> ---
> >>  lib/tiny-printf.c | 3 ++-
> >>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/lib/tiny-printf.c b/lib/tiny-printf.c
> >> index 1138c7012a..8fc7e48d99 100644
> >> --- a/lib/tiny-printf.c
> >> +++ b/lib/tiny-printf.c
> >> @@ -242,6 +242,7 @@ static int _vprintf(struct printf_info *info, const char *fmt, va_list va)
> >>  				goto abort;
> >>  			case 'u':
> >>  			case 'd':
> >> +			case 'i':
> >>  				div = 1000000000;
> >>  				if (islong) {
> >>  					num = va_arg(va, unsigned long);
> >> @@ -251,7 +252,7 @@ static int _vprintf(struct printf_info *info, const char *fmt, va_list va)
> >>  					num = va_arg(va, unsigned int);
> >>  				}
> >>  
> >> -				if (ch == 'd') {
> >> +				if (ch != 'u') {
> >>  					if (islong && (long)num < 0) {
> >>  						num = -(long)num;
> >>  						out(info, '-');
> > 
> > How much does the size change and where do we see this as a problem?
> 
> Any code which uses %i in SPL just misbehaves, e.g.
> printf("%s[%i] value=%x", __func__, __LINE__, val);
> prints function name and then incorrect value, because %i is ignored.
> This is also documented in the commit message.
> 
> U-Boot grows in size massively due to all the DM/DT bloat which is being
> forced upon everyone, but there the uncontrolled growth is apparently OK
> even if it brings no obvious improvement, rather the opposite. And yet
> here, size increase suddenly matters? Sorry, that's not right.
> 
> The code grows by 6 bytes.

Yes, it matters for _tiny-printf_ as that's where we have little to no
room for growth.  So it's just debug prints you were doing that ran in
to a problem?  Thanks!

-- 
Tom
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