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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: bakul@netcom.com, terry@lambert.org
Subject: Re: Policy on printf format specifiers?
Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org, hsu@cs.hut.fi
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>I don't really care whether I have to add additional unsigned short based
>functions or not, though using wchar_t as a 16 bit unsigned value would
>save a lot of code duplication and kernel bloat.

You have to add additional u_int16_t based functions to support externally
imposed 16-bit storage formats, and u_int32_t based functions to support
32-bit storage formats (not to mention u_int36_t based functions to
support 36-bit storage formats :-).

Bruce