From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 26 16:44:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA00269 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 26 Jan 1998 16:44:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from word.smith.net.au (vh1.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA00196; Mon, 26 Jan 1998 16:44:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA00689; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 11:07:19 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <199801270037.LAA00689@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: albast cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where's gcvt(3) ?? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 26 Jan 1998 21:04:25 BST." <199801262004.VAA17788@xs2.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 11:07:19 +1030 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > Should be a trivial patch, if that's all it needs. You might prod the > > YACL maintainer to avoid the use of platform-specific quirks. > > yup:-) most systems seem to have the cvt() family though.. as to why.. > it's completely redundant As Greg observed, it seems to be leakage of the internal implementation of printf(). > I'll commit a port of YACL, Freetype and xfstt. Expect them somewhere next > week. Freetype's been done already, so don't kill yourself there. As for the others, yay! -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\