On Thursday 09 July 2009 00:27:38 Scott Wood wrote:
What would break? If things would no longer fit where they currently fit, that could happen on any change that increases code size -- possibly even just by changing compilers (this exact thing happened to the NAND bootstrap on some boards with very recent GCC). That's life, and IMHO it is not reasonable to arbitrarily block changes that fix bugs because of the theoretical possibility that it might push someone's size over the limit.
A quick grep shows several instances of %ll/%L in other places that may not be obvious to the board maintainer (cmd_mmc, ubi, disk/part_efi, cpu/mpc8xxx/ddr, lmb, disk/part, cmd_ide, reiserfs). Boards that use those without 64-bit printf are broken *right now*.
Correct. And these problems are not easily spotted since you usually don't expect that "simple things" like a printf format are not working.
Best regards, Stefan
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