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

[Paolo Carlini <pcarlini at unitus dot it>]

Ulrich Drepper wrote:

>On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 00:15, Paolo Carlini wrote:
>
>>May I ask which are your feelings about this issue at large? Does it 
>>make sense to envisage a "C"-locale only, minimal, snprintf to be used
>>
>>for low-level (MT-clean, indeed) number formatting in v3?
>>
>You probably underestimate the amount of work and code this requires. 
>For int formatting without high performance expectations you might get
>away with reasonable small amount of code.  If you need the format flags
>(don't know in what contexts you want to use it) it already gets
>complicated.  Reimplementing floating-point printing is, ehm,
>challenging.  Not many people did it successfully.  It took me about 3-4
>weeks full-time (>14h a day) to write both reading and writing
>functions.  Plus about 10 bug fixes in the following now 7 years the
>code exists.  And the necessary code is, again depending on the quality
>you want to achieve, really big.
>
>If you want to do the work go ahead.  But make sure that if the code
>isn't needed (as in glbic 2.3) it doesn't get used.  The system library
>code is almost certainly be better and sharing is adding on top of this.
>
There is a misunderstanding here... Probably due to my bad english... I 
never meant really implementing this myself! You are kind with me in 
supposing this! I meant really /excerpting/ and /adapting/ it from 
glibc2.2! Is this doable?

Ciao, Paolo.