Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 14:00:51 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: Max Laier <max@love2party.net>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: printf behaviour with illegal or malformed format string Message-ID: <12349.1134478851@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:41:34 %2B1100." <20051213230723.T3248@epsplex.bde.org>
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In message <20051213230723.T3248@epsplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes: >Now I think they should be very rarely needed and more rarely used. >Using them mainly gives unportable code that breaks especially badly >on systems which don't support extensions. Portability is good, but it shouldn't get in the way of improving our programs. >I think these belong in specialized applications or libraries. %T is >already handled better by strftime/gmtime/localtime. There's no handling for fractional seconds there. >I mean aborting instead of returning NULL for failing malloc()s breaks >defined behaviour. Right, that's deliberate. -- 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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