Re: working with "good enough" functions

[Simon Josefsson]

Mike Frysinger <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thursday 08 January 2009 04:49:16 Paul Eggert wrote:
>> Mike Frysinger <address@hidden> writes:
>> > i explicitly pulled in the
>> > printf-posix module because i want a posix implementation on crappy
>> > systems. but i dont care if said systems have broken floating point
>> > implementations since i dont use floating point in my code.
>>
>> If this happens often enough, perhaps gnulib should have a
>> printf-posix-no-fp module that does what you want?
>
> i would certainly use it, but if i'm the only one expressing interest thus 
> far, then maybe it isnt a hot issue.

I see that some *printf objects from gnulib are linked into builds even
on glibc platforms.  If that would be fixed by using a module
printf-posix-no-fp, I would use it.  (My projects rarely use
float/double.)

The code ends up in the *.a libraries, which sometimes is used to make
size-based decisions which library is the smallest, so it would be nice
to avoid this baggage.

/Simon