From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:19:40 GMT
Subject: Re: Trying to get GIT running on SCO OpenServer
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0801231912230.2803@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <3213B93E-42FF-4D63-A3A4-BD742630CEA1@vicaya.com>



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