Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add strbuf_initf()

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On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 19:26 +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 11:55 +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> >
> > > So your suggestion is out, unless you suggest to implement the whole 
> > > printf mechanism... which I hope you're not.
> > 
> > It's not a terrible idea, honestly.
> 
> Heh.  Yeah, I actually posted a start...
> 
> > There are several mature vsnprintf implementations out there under 
> > friendly licenses.  We could just stick it in compat/.  It's the only 
> > way to do reliable, cross platform vsnprintf, in my experience.  And the 
> > issue with %I64u vs %llu could be handle by implementing both, as Wayne 
> > Davison suggests.
> 
> Sure, we could always copy from somewhere else.  My rationale was that I 
> had fun writing it, and that we do not really need a full printf() 
> implementation.

That's how it always starts... "We just need %d and %s! It'll take me
half an hour!"  I know because, I've it a number of times myself ;)
Just pull in the rsync one, don't waste time on this.

Kristian


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