Re: [PATCH 1/3] ring-buffer: Add uname to match criteria for persistent ring buffer

On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 at 15:32, Linus Torvalds
[off-list ref] wrote:

But if you look more closely, you'll see that the way the buffer is
managed is actually not as a word array at all, but using

        char *str, *end;

instead of word pointers.

Oh, and in addition to the smaller-than-int types ('%c' and '%hd'
etc), pointers that get dereferenced also get written as a byte string
to that word array. There might be other cases too.

So it's really a fairly odd kind of "sometimes words, sometimes not"
array, with the size of the array given in words.

That binary printf is very strange.

               Linus