Libiberty's snprintf for v3?

Kaveh R. Ghazi ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu
Tue Apr 22 03:02:00 GMT 2003


[second try, this time with a Subject:]

> From: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
> 
> > But, on the upside we won't need vasprintf.c, and the resulting code
> > will probably be faster than the current implementation if we cache
> > the fd.
> 
> File I/O is very expensive on Microsoft platforms (DJGPP, Cygwin,
> MinGW) compared to what you're used to under Unix platforms, even to
> /dev/null (both djgpp and cygwin emulate /dev/null, I don't know about
> mingw).

Ok, but that's only a concern if these platforms are missing
[v]snprintf and therefore would rely on the libiberty copy.
E.g. I'd expect that cygwin has snprintf.  Don't know about the
others.

Can you please clarify the other platforms' situations?

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Kaveh R. Ghazi			ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu



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