Re: [Freedos-kernel] prinf changes

2009-07-18 Thread Bart Oldeman
2009/7/18 Kenneth J. Davis : > It has to deal with debugging the kernel, especially during > initialization.  I choose this method as the kernel does not usually > have many strings it prints except when built with DEBUG and the > alternative is to determine exactly which portions of the C code and

Re: [Freedos-kernel] prinf changes

2009-07-18 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Bart Oldeman wrote: > Jeremy, > > I was wondering what your reasoning is for changing It has to deal with debugging the kernel, especially during initialization. I choose this method as the kernel does not usually have many strings it prints except when built wit

Re: [Freedos-kernel] Fwd: FreeDOS kernel Build Fixed: Build 2009.07.18.001

2009-07-18 Thread Bart Oldeman
2009/7/18 Kenneth J. Davis : > I was just checking my email and about to work on an issue with the > usb stack from Bret Johnson.  Does this change effect/fix the issues > with this (from the description it looks like it does - as the problem > was described as FAT32 specific issue with the kernel

[Freedos-kernel] Fwd: FreeDOS kernel Build Fixed: Build 2009.07.18.001

2009-07-18 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
I was just checking my email and about to work on an issue with the usb stack from Bret Johnson. Does this change effect/fix the issues with this (from the description it looks like it does - as the problem was described as FAT32 specific issue with the kernel and related to the buildbpb call) or

[Freedos-kernel] prinf changes

2009-07-18 Thread Bart Oldeman
Jeremy, I was wondering what your reasoning is for changing int VA_CDECL printf(const char *fmt, ...) to int VA_CDECL printf(CONST char FAR *fmt, ...) are there any format strings that need to be far? Because for just printing a far string s it's better to use printf("%S", s); because printf(s) g