On Tue, 31 Aug 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
In 107880a I removed our use of setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "") because of a
bug in the GNU C Library [1]
Future readers might benefit from a reminder that it is vsnprintf that
is broken.
Aside, not about this patch: glibc printf can be very convenient for
translators, because of format strings like "%4$s". Do other common
platforms like FreeBSD and Mingw have something similar?
Speaking for FreeBSD:
% svn log -r21674 printf.3
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r21674 | jkh | 1997-01-14 08:31:39 +0100 (wto) | 8 linii
The following patch to lib/libc/stdio implements positional arguments in
a manner consistent with other implementations. Its done in a way that
adds only a tiny amount of overhead when positional arguments are not used.
I also have a test program to go with this, but don't know where it belongs
in the tree.
Submitted-By: Bill Fenner <fenner@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Solaris 9 has it, too.
--Marcin