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Re: Trying to get GIT running on SCO OpenServer

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Jan 24, 2008, 03:19 UTC
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On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Luke Lu wrote:
> 
> I wonder what's the downside of just using a native format implementation like
> the one in Vstr[1] or bstring[2]?

I'd suggest taking the kernel vsnprintf() instead. It has the standard interface (no support for FP, but we don't care) so it should be pretty easy to just plug in, and it doesn't reaquire much of the environment (just a 64-bit divide&modulus-by-100000).

			Linus
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