On Tue, 20 Sep 2016, Martin Sebor wrote: > > That's much harder to support in format checking (which expects one length > > modifier, not a combination like that). > > I haven't looked into it detail but since the format checker supports > one-to-two character sequences of length modifiers (h or hh, etc) it > should be possible to extend it to handle one-to-three character > sequences (h, hV, or hhV, etc.) The V character would not be a new > length modifier on its own but instead be recognized as part of > a longer length modifier sequence. Do you see a problem with that?
You could arrange for length modifiers to have extra variants like that (at present they have single and double variants listed), but it's clearly more complicated than a modifier that's used on its own. -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com