Messages in this thread | | | From | Jani Nikula <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] lib/vsprintf: Add support for printing V4L2 and DRM fourccs | Date | Fri, 03 Apr 2020 09:37:14 +0300 |
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On Thu, 02 Apr 2020, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2020-04-02 at 11:34 +0300, Jani Nikula wrote: >> Or could we conceive of a way to make this locally extensible yet safe, >> letting callers use something like %{foo}, as well as providing a >> locally relevant function to do the conversion? > > No. printf validation would be broken.
I tossed the idea on a whim, and thinking further I could probably come up with a number of challenges, but care to elaborate on what you see as the problem in validation?
BR, Jani.
-- Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center
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