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Date:      Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:46:27 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Arch <arch@freebsd.org>, Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org>, Marcel Moolenaar <xcllnt@mac.com>
Subject:   Re: On errno 
Message-ID:  <96314.1238481987@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:49:59 %2B0200." <20090331064959.GA3516@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> 

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In message <20090331064959.GA3516@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>, Luigi Rizzo writes:

>we are probably digressing but printf in glibc has specifiers to
>indicate which argument you want to use for each format.
>
>http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/libc/Output-Conversion-Syntax.html
>
>I suppose this takes an extra pass over the format string to collect
>the proper type info for all arguments, so it is not
>not a dramatic change in the implementation of *printf.

Yeah, we have that crap too, and you can see how messy and slow our
printf became as a result in SVN.

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