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Subject: Re: standards/51292: [PATCH] add ecvt()/fcvt()/gcvt() functions
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<<On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 06:11:09 -0700, David Schultz <das@freebsd.org> said:

> Nobody uses these functions anymore, so it doesn't seem particularly
> useful to implement them now, given that snprintf() provides almost
> equivalent functionality.

However, it doesn't hurt to have them, even if we are not targeting
XSI compliance.

> Any active standards that still require them will most likely drop
> them in the near future.

POSIX has a five-year review cycle.

-GAWollman