String handling audit and new HACKING points
Russ Allbery
rra at stanford.edu
Tue Aug 13 22:45:31 UTC 2002
Marco d'Itri <md at Linux.IT> writes:
> On Aug 13, Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> wrote:
>> basically requires getting very chummy with an sprintf implementation
>> or requires variadic macros (which we can't rely on). At least as far
>> as I can tell.
> Why not? Which modern systems do not support them?
> Don't we require mmap anyway?
They're new in C99. I don't think that even current commercial Unix
vendor compilers support them. Support is considerably less widespread
than support for mmap.
Requiring variadic macros pretty much amounts to requiring GCC right now,
I think, and I don't really want to do that.
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