> Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2017 11:04:51 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Markus Hennecke <markus-henne...@markus-hennecke.de>
> 
> On Thu, 3 Aug 2017, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> 
> > Currently clang ignores the "kprintf" format attribute.  I've got a
> > fix for that, but with that fix it complains about the code fixed in
> > the diff below.
> > 
> > Now our manual page says:
> > 
> >    FORMAT OPTIONS
> >      The kernel functions don't support as many formatting specifiers as 
> > their
> >      user space counterparts.  In addition to the floating point formatting
> >      specifiers, the following integer type specifiers are not supported:
> > 
> >      %hh    Argument of char type.  This format specifier is accepted by the
> >             kernel but will be handled as %h.
> > 
> > So as far as the kernel is concerned, this change is a no-op.
> > 
> > ok?
> > 
> > P.S. While printing as a short is technically incorrect, it works
> >      because the arguments are unsigned and promoted to int.
> > 
> > 
> > Index: subr_disk.c
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /cvs/src/sys/kern/subr_disk.c,v
> > retrieving revision 1.230
> > diff -u -p -r1.230 subr_disk.c
> > --- subr_disk.c     4 May 2017 22:47:27 -0000       1.230
> > +++ subr_disk.c     3 Aug 2017 17:38:32 -0000
> > @@ -1864,7 +1864,7 @@ duid_format(u_char *duid)
> >     static char duid_str[17];
> >  
> >     snprintf(duid_str, sizeof(duid_str),
> > -       "%02hx%02hx%02hx%02hx%02hx%02hx%02hx%02hx",
> > +       "%02hhx%02hhx%02hhx%02hhx%02hhx%02hhx%02hhx%02hhx",
> >         duid[0], duid[1], duid[2], duid[3],
> >         duid[4], duid[5], duid[6], duid[7]);
> 
> This breaks kernel builds with gcc. It looks like gcc in base is too old 
> for handling %hhx. I tried to build a kernel for armv7 with rev 1.231 
> today.

Damn.  Thanks for spotting this.  It is fairly easy to add %hh support
to our gcc, but maybe we shouldn't.

So here is an alternative approach.  Just cast to u_short in
recognition that this is what the kernel actually supports.

ok?


Index: kern/subr_disk.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/sys/kern/subr_disk.c,v
retrieving revision 1.231
diff -u -p -r1.231 subr_disk.c
--- kern/subr_disk.c    6 Aug 2017 19:56:29 -0000       1.231
+++ kern/subr_disk.c    7 Aug 2017 09:30:29 -0000
@@ -1864,9 +1864,10 @@ duid_format(u_char *duid)
        static char duid_str[17];
 
        snprintf(duid_str, sizeof(duid_str),
-           "%02hhx%02hhx%02hhx%02hhx%02hhx%02hhx%02hhx%02hhx",
-           duid[0], duid[1], duid[2], duid[3],
-           duid[4], duid[5], duid[6], duid[7]);
+           "%02hx%02hx%02hx%02hx%02hx%02hx%02hx%02hx",
+           (u_short)duid[0], (u_short)duid[1], (u_short)duid[2],
+           (u_short)duid[3], (u_short)duid[4], (u_short)duid[5],
+           (u_short)duid[6], (u_short)duid[7]);
 
        return (duid_str);
 }

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