Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:46:27 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> Cc: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Arch <arch@freebsd.org>, Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org>, Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com> Subject: Re: On errno Message-ID: <96314.1238481987@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:49:59 %2B0200." <20090331064959.GA3516@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
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In message <20090331064959.GA3516@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>, Luigi Rizzo writes: >we are probably digressing but printf in glibc has specifiers to >indicate which argument you want to use for each format. > >http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/libc/Output-Conversion-Syntax.html > >I suppose this takes an extra pass over the format string to collect >the proper type info for all arguments, so it is not >not a dramatic change in the implementation of *printf. Yeah, we have that crap too, and you can see how messy and slow our printf became as a result in SVN. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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