Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 08:28:22 +0100 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/include stdlib.h src/lib/libc/gen getbsize.3 getbsize.c Message-ID: <200210240728.g9O7SMks053728@grimreaper.grondar.org> In-Reply-To: <20021024132124.O25492-100000@gamplex.bde.org> ; from Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> "Thu, 24 Oct 2002 13:42:05 %2B1000." References: <20021024132124.O25492-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
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> Of course not. We need to back out this change. > > Another reason to back it out is that it is just wrong. The header length > is not a size but a field width that needs to be passed to printf via %*. "That is sometimes passed to %*". The rest of the time its not used or is a happier as a size_t. > > I don't believe this is a crisis. Make world has fixed worse problems. > > There may be many more in ports and third party software. This is a BSD4.4-specific interface. A statistical sampling given by grepping my /usr/local and /usr/X11R6 gives no hits. I have 142 ports installed, including a few of the system variety most likely to need this interface or its ilk. M -- o Mark Murray \_ O.\_ Warning: this .sig is umop ap!sdn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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