On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, Gustavo Rios wrote:
> I could suggest one to avoid ANSI C functions as much as possible.
> Write his/her own ones. Why? The motivation has been stated by you:
> portability concerns.
Only if you believe the code you produce is better than the result of
the effort of hundreds of people over a period of more than 20 years.
People inventing the wheel over and over is nothing more than a waste
of effort and a endless source of bugs. Effort that instead could
have been spent on providing more C99 features to our libc.
-Otto
>
> I could do it ...
>
> On 4/28/06, Leonardo Rodrigues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello everyone!
> >
> > So, I've been trying to build some apps here on my OpenBSD box, but
> > the lack of OpenBSD's compliance of some C99 standards is stopping me
> > from achieving my builds...
> > The only problem so far is the lack of support for the %a string
> > format used in functions snprintf and sscanf.
> >
> > I've tried to circumvent this problem by using "libtrio"
> > (http://daniel.haxx.se/projects/trio/), a library that claims to
> > reimplement those functions above, but I couldn't get it to work right
> > (it fails right on 'make test').
> >
> > Of course I could just dig myself into the code and try to implement
> > this standard... but I'm a mediocre programmer...
> >
> > Suggestions on how to solve this problem of mine (workarounds, etc) are
> > welcome!
> >
> > --
> > An OpenBSD user... and that's all you need to know =)
