Re: [PATCH] New functions wprintf, fwprintf, swprintf, vwprintf, vfwprintf, vswprintf

[Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn at redhat dot com>]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mar  5 14:40, Howland Craig D (Craig) wrote:
>   
> > Since the wide-character functions were introduced for C99, which also
> > introduced and requires the long long (and long double) types, does it
> > make sense to propagate the printf _WANT_IO_LONG_LONG configuration
> > option to the wide functions?
> >     
>
> IMHO, yes.  There might still a legitimate interest to keep this in for
> a couple of smaller targets.
>
>   
Agreed.
> > Should the Newlib printf flag extensions (DOUq) be kept for wprintf?
> >     
>
> Probably not.  I thought to remove them as well at one point, but
> wanted to discuss this on the list first.  I just forgot to mention this
> in my patch submission.  Thanks for following up with this question.
> I thin we should remove them, yes.  I'm interested in Jeff's opinion,
> though.
>
>   
DOU can/should be removed.  q is a gnu c compiler extension so we should 
consider keeping it at least optionally.  It is in the glibc 
documentation for formatted output.

-- Jeff J.