Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 17:33:19 -0800 (PST) From: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.org> To: osa@FreeBSD.org.ru, das@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: standards/51292: [PATCH] add ecvt()/fcvt()/gcvt() functions (SUSv3) Message-ID: <200402070133.i171XJvf060255@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Synopsis: [PATCH] add ecvt()/fcvt()/gcvt() functions (SUSv3) State-Changed-From-To: open->closed State-Changed-By: das State-Changed-When: Fri Feb 6 17:33:01 PST 2004 State-Changed-Why: The [efg]cvt() functions date back to Version 3 UNIX. In 4.3BSD-Reno, they were deprecated, moved to libcompat, and subsequently removed. I really appreciate you working on this stuff, but at present there doesn't seem to be enough justification for resurrecting them. They are not reentrant and have never been part of the C standard, and nobody has come forward with a concrete example of an application that requires them. Should this situation change, I would be happy to re-open this PR. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=51292
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