On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 4:37 AM, Ravi Pokala <rpok...@mac.com> wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: <owner-src-committ...@freebsd.org> on behalf of Ian Lepore 
>> <i...@freebsd.org>
>> Date: 2016-12-19, Monday at 11:20
>> To: Warner Losh <i...@bsdimp.com>, Ravi Pokala <rpok...@mac.com>
>> Cc: Sepherosa Ziehau <sepher...@gmail.com>, Dimitry Andric 
>> <d...@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committ...@freebsd.org>, 
>> "svn-src-...@freebsd.org" <svn-src-...@freebsd.org>, 
>> "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
>> Subject: Re: svn commit: r310171 - head/sys/sys
>>
>> On Mon, 2016-12-19 at 11:58 -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>> Are there other precedence for avoiding the SCN macros in the tree as
>>> well, or is this new art?
>>>
>>> Warner
>>
>> There was another commit recently the fixed the same kind of scanf
>> error by making the variable fit the scanf type (changing uint64_t to
>> an explicit long long unsigned, iirc).  I don't know if that alone
>> counts as a precedent, but IMO it's a more palatible fix than the
>> SCN/PRI ugliness.
>
> With all apologies to Churchill, SCN/PRI are the worst way to address this in 
> a machine-independent way, except for all the other ways that have been tried 
> from time to time. :-P
>

If no objection comes, I'd commit the posted patch as it is tomorrow in my time.

Thanks,
sephe

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