Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 Sep 2022 16:05:31 +0200 | From | Uwe Kleine-König <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] printf: Emit "SUCCESS" if NULL is passed for %pe |
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On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 04:41:24PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 01:10:50PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > > For code that emits a string representing a usual return value it's > > convenient to have a 0 result in a string representation of success > > instead of "00000000". > > This is a controversial change. For APIs that comes to my mind it means > "OPTIONAL resource NOT FOUND, while no error happened". Doe it mean success? > I don't think so.
OK, agreed. Would you feed such a value unchecked to %pe today (i.e. without my patch)?
Best regards Uwe
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