Subject: Upcoming kernel changes.
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@deshaw.com>
List: current-users
Date: 03/29/1996 12:43:00
1. Update gcc/common/c-common.c to:
   - understand the db_printf % format specifiers
   - understand the kernel printf %r format specifier which will be renamed
     to %:
   - Be more permissive to %b arguments: accept any integer type, not only
     unsigned ints.
   - Add a kprintf format specifier.

   This has no effect to any of the ports, but the sparc which compiles the
   kernel with -Wall. Sparc current users will eventually need to recompile gcc.

   Timeline: immediately.

2. Update kernel printf %r format to be %: so that it is the same as in
   the sfio package, and does not conflict with the %r format specifier
   in db_printf().

   This has no effect at all. Files changed: the ncr driver and a couple of
   kernel mi files.

   Timeline: this weekend.

3. Update header files to use __attribute__((__format__(__kprintf__,X,Y)))

   This has no effect, except on the sparc which by that time it should
   have updated the compiler.

   Timeline: early next week.

christos