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On Tue, 2020-08-18 at 08:24 +0000, David Laight wrote:
> From: Nick Desaulniers
> > Sent: 17 August 2020 19:37
> ..
> > That said, this libcall optimization/transformation (sprintf->stpcpy)
> > does look useful to me.
> 
> I'd rather get a cow if I ask for a cow...
> 
> Maybe checkpatch (etc) could report places where snprintf()
> could be replaced by a simpler function.

You mean sprintf no?

Reminds me of seq_printf vs seq_puts...

https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/16/79