On errno

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20090331064959.GA3516 at onelab2.iet.unipi.it>, Luigi Rizzo writes:

>we are probably digressing but printf in glibc has specifiers to
>indicate which argument you want to use for each format.
>
>http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/libc/Output-Conversion-Syntax.html
>
>I suppose this takes an extra pass over the format string to collect
>the proper type info for all arguments, so it is not
>not a dramatic change in the implementation of *printf.

Yeah, we have that crap too, and you can see how messy and slow our
printf became as a result in SVN.

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