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From:   Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] printf: add support for printing symbolic error codes
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On Mon 2019-09-09 22:38:25, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> It has been suggested several times to extend vsnprintf() to be able
> to convert the numeric value of ENOSPC to print "ENOSPC". This is yet
> another attempt. Rather than adding another %p extension, simply teach
> plain %p to convert ERR_PTRs. While the primary use case is

For the record, I hate manually decoding errors, so I like this patch.

									Pavel
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