Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 12:44:38 +0100 From: Jonas Bulow <jonas.bulow@servicefactory.se> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@mahoroba.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: %a and %A formats Message-ID: <3A34BE26.8F2876B@servicefactory.se> References: <99149.976465929@critter>
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
> In message <xzpy9xogs2h.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes:
> >Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@mahoroba.org> writes:
> >> I don't like this. I've tired enough to address af dependent
> >> programming. What character will you introduce for IPv7 or IPv8...?
> >> Furthermore, IPv6 address has scope that IPv4 doesn't have. %a should
> >> takes struct sockaddr * for the argument instead of struct in_addr *,
> >> and should be address independent.
> >
> >Many (if not most) of the places in the kernel that need this don't
> >have a struct sockaddr available.
>
> What we *really* need is a %{type} construct with dynmically
> loadable renderes for different types.
Something like
http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/sfio/sfio-fmt.ps
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