Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add human-readable units modifier to vsnprintf() | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Tue, 22 May 2012 23:12:14 -0700 |
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On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 02:04 -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote: > Only trouble is we lose the existing method of specifying the type of > the integer.
Hi again Kent.
My first suggestion to you was: --------------------- > or maybe yet another lib/vsprintf pointer extension > like %pD with some descriptors after the %pD for > type, width and precision. ---------------------
For instance, internet addresses use pointer extensions %pI4 and %pI6 for ipv4 and ipv6 addresses.
> New flag character would make much more sense... if gcc > could be persuaded.
It can't be so persuaded though. Maybe a future gcc.
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