Re: Bug (?) in sprintf family?

[Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn at redhat dot com>]

Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 15:36 -0400, Jeff Johnston wrote:
>   
> > Please try the attached patch.  It disconnects the sprintf and sscanf 
> > family of functions from bringing in all the I/O stuff.  This is 
> > especially useful since tzset drags in sscanf.
> >
> > If I missed something, let me know.
> >
> > -- Jeff J.
> >     
>
> Jeff:
>
> Since the separation of sprintf/scanf from the I/O stuff isn't part of
> the C library specification, this patch doesn't really do me any good.
> In fact, I'ld prefer that it not be applied. Had this patch already been
> applied when I started, it would have had the effect of obscuring a bug.
>
> shap
>
>   
Regardless of your needs, I believe it would be useful for platforms 
that are size-constrained as it can lower the size of a module.

-- Jeff J.