Commit 88288ed0 authored by Miles Chen's avatar Miles Chen Committed by Jonathan Corbet

docs: printk-formats: add ptrdiff_t type to printk-formats

When print the difference between two pointers, we should use
the ptrdiff_t modifier %t.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMiles Chen <miles.chen@mediatek.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent f0ae2cfa
......@@ -135,6 +135,20 @@ equivalent to %lx (or %lu). %px is preferred because it is more uniquely
grep'able. If in the future we need to modify the way the kernel handles
printing pointers we will be better equipped to find the call sites.
Pointer Differences
-------------------
::
%td 2560
%tx a00
For printing the pointer differences, use the %t modifier for ptrdiff_t.
Example::
printk("test: difference between pointers: %td\n", ptr2 - ptr1);
Struct Resources
----------------
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