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 ===================================================================== DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: +49-8142-66989-0 Fax: +49-8142-66989-80 Email: off...@denx.de ===================================================================== _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
