From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:26:50 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add strbuf_initf()
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0803061925370.3941@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <1204827539.10084.9.camel@gaara.boston.redhat.com>

Hi,

On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Kristian Høgsberg wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 11:55 +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
> > So your suggestion is out, unless you suggest to implement the whole 
> > printf mechanism... which I hope you're not.
> 
> It's not a terrible idea, honestly.

Heh.  Yeah, I actually posted a start...

> There are several mature vsnprintf implementations out there under 
> friendly licenses.  We could just stick it in compat/.  It's the only 
> way to do reliable, cross platform vsnprintf, in my experience.  And the 
> issue with %I64u vs %llu could be handle by implementing both, as Wayne 
> Davison suggests.

Sure, we could always copy from somewhere else.  My rationale was that I 
had fun writing it, and that we do not really need a full printf() 
implementation.

Ciao,
Dscho