Replacing or disabling "printf" calls

[Joel Sherrill]

On 10/17/2011 7:31 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 10/17/2011 02:12 PM, Rafael Morales wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> We are working in a space project using RTEMS and we are worried about
>> program sizes.
>>
>> Reviewing the map file of a sample program using MIL-STD-1553B and
>> spacewire driver, we have found :
>>
>> 9460 bytes used by lib_a-vfprinft.o
>> 9192 bytes used by lib_a-svfprintf.o
>>
>>
>> Almost 18KB for printing it a lot!
> This actually is very little!
When you are on a PC with GBs of memory, it is.  This is on
a CPU with limited resources -- a space hardened CPU where
memory is expensive.  Someone told me that adding another
RAM module to their board would be USD100K.

The other factor is that it is common to review every line of code
that will be on the target hardware.  If printf() can be eliminated,
this is a significant body of code to review.
>> We are not using "printf" in main program, but we have found it in the
>> source file of MIL-STD-1553B and spacewire driver.
>> Those drivers was originally compiled with RTEMS and are linked with the
>> main program in any compilation.
> Are these source files part of the RTEMS source tree?
>
> If yes, which files are you referring to?
> If no, ... c.f. below.
This is an important point
>> Can any one help us to replace or disable that "printf" calls?
> The only option to get rid of printf is to replace all references to it
> from all code you are using.
If it is in a driver, it is almost certainly debug or status code and 
probably should be
printk().  But without seeing the code, I don't know.
> In most cases, this is hardly possible without fundamentally breaking
> the code.
Not if it is just debug.
--joel
> Ralf
>
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