standards/51292: [PATCH] add ecvt()/fcvt()/gcvt() functions (SUSv3)

[Sergey A. Osokin]

The following reply was made to PR standards/51292; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Sergey A. Osokin" <osa at freebsd.org.ru>
To: Alexey Zelkin <phantom at FreeBSD.org.ua>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: standards/51292: [PATCH] add ecvt()/fcvt()/gcvt() functions (SUSv3)
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 19:46:27 +0400

 On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 05:02:07PM +0300, Alexey Zelkin wrote:
 > 
 > Well, answers below, but please consider my general point (same as Bruce's)
 > I don't think that we need it at all.  SUSv3 marks these functions as
 > legacy (i.e. deprecated) and suggest to use sprintf() instead (see
 > APPLICATION USAGE section).
 
 Another idea.  What do you think if I create a little manpage
 about [efg]cvt() functions, something like this?
 
 <manpage>
 ecvt(),fcvt(),gcvt() functions shall convert floating-point
 numbers to null-terminated strings
 
 DESCRIPTION
 ecvt(),fcvt(),gcvt() functions marked by
 .Std SUSv3 
 as legacy (i.e. deprecated) and suggest to use sprintf() instead.
 </manpage>
 
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