Re: [Chicken-hackers] compiling Chicken 4.7.0 with musl instead of glibc

[Peter Bex]

On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 02:45:54AM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> Sergey scripsit:
> 
> > On the subject of the 'gcov' problem, the word from #musl is:
> >
> >     "gcvt was deprecated/removed some 10-20 years ago..
> >     i could add it if needed, but i've never seen anything use it before
> >     it's similar to sprintf with %g
> >     but omits the decimal point, and maybe some other oddities"
> >
> > What's the right response here?
> 
> Quite right.  It was in UNIX 98 and Posix 2001, but is not part of
> Posix 2008.  Use snprintf() instead.

We already use sprintf or fprintf when gcvt is unavailable (if HAVE_GCVT is
not defined in chicken-config.h).

I don't really see why we have this; why is gcvt favored over printf?
We could just remove the checks altogether and use printf everywhere,
even if gcvt is available.  This would make the code simpler and more
portable.

Cheers,
Peter
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