Re: [Patch] libstdc++/26970

[Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at cs dot tamu dot edu>]

On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Jakub Jelinek wrote:

| >   Variadic functions are usually slower than non-variadic ones.  Any
| > reason why the issue could not be addressed differently?
|
| But s*printf is already variadic and on most targets sprintf and snprintf
| are just tiny wrappers around vsprintf and vsnprintf (the code duplication
| would be otherwise huge).  So it really doesn't matter if you do
| va_start/va_end in the vsnprintf caller or call snprintf which in turn
| does va_start/va_end.

you're right.  That clarifies my earlier "surprise".

Thanks,

-- Gaby