Re: 06-bye-bye-ecvt.patch

[Gary V . Vaughan]

On Friday 17 August 2001 12:47 pm, Akim Demaille wrote:
> This is very debatable, I don't apply it, waiting for some feedback.
> I like simplifying the code, but we might lose some performances here.
> Still, when aiming at portability, I think we should stick to extreme
> simplicity.  And IMHO, if we actually want to keep ecvt, then it is
> the converse that should be done: implement a simple ecvt based on
> sprintf, not two implementation of format.

I'll buy that.  I plan to replace the guts of format.c entirely with calls to 
snprintfv,which was designed exactly for this purpose (to allow interpreters 
to collect arguments and pass them directly to the snprintfv API, rather than 
needing a full reimplementation).

In the mean time, I'm happy for you to commit this patch.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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