Re: [RFC] PR6015, snprintf, glibc2.3 and all that...

[Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>]

On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 15:34, Benjamin Kosnik wrote:
>
> > How exactly they work? I'm not very knowldedgeable about them... They do 
> > not rely on an external libc, right? Do you think it would be possible 
> > to force __builtin_fprintf to use the "C" locale unconditionally? It 
> > would be great!
> 
> I don't know if __builtin_fprintf knows about locales.

There is a big misunderstanding.  __builtin_printf etc don't actually
implemented what they are suggesting by their names.  Instead they are
only names for the compiler to convert

  printf ("hello world\n");

into

  puts ("hello world");

and other tricks like this.

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