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Re: diag_printf refuses to print ANSI escape sequences?


On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 03:19:42PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
> In the "not a big deal" department...
> 
> I'm trying to send ANSI escape sequences using diag_printf, and
> diag_printf refuses.  If I put the escape character in the format
> string it says 
> 
>  <Bad format string: 8055F18 : 0 0 2 807F0D8 DDD9BFFD FB93FFDC 8055758
>  FB93FFDC>
> 
> If there's an escape character in a string that is to be printed using
> the "%s" format, it says: 
> 
>  <Not a string: 0x8055F20>
> 
> I understand that it's useful to attempt to avoid printing random
> binary garbage, but I would think that ASCII ESC might be allowed in
> strings.
>  
> I've found that insterting the escape characters using %c works, but
> that's a bit awkward.
 
There are nice diag_dump_buf* functions in the eCos infra layer
(cyg/infra/diag.h).  I do use that.

-- Sergei

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