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Re: [PATCH] pretty.c: add %z specifier.

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David Symonds <dsymonds@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 21, 2008, 05:50 UTC
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On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Govind Salinas <govind@sophiasuchtig.com> wrote:

>
>  Sorry, I'm a bit confused.  Should I alter the patch to use a different code
>  for null, that would be fine by me?  The above seems to be an unrelated issue.

I'm pretty sure the suggestion is that you should change the patch to allow for *any* specific byte value, where the null byte is just a special case. %x00 would be used instead of %z, in other words, and %x20 would be a space character, etc.

Dave.
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  1. pretty.c: add %z specifier.Govind Salinas, Mar 21, 2008
  2. Jeff KingMar 21, 2008
  3. Junio C HamanoMar 21, 2008
  4. Jeff KingMar 21, 2008
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  6. Govind SalinasMar 21, 2008
  7. David SymondsMar 21, 2008
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