On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 11:02:12PM +0100, Jilles Tjoelker wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 06:04:31PM -0800, Conrad Meyer wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 5:56 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian.ch...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > Here's my reason for removal.
>
> > > Plenty of us are looking to be able to build bits of the BSD source
> > > tree as part of other non FreeBSD systems, especially if they're
> > > involved in bootstrapping.
>
> > Understood, however:
>
> > > That means that it needs to be compilable
> > > by a non-FreeBSD-modified compiler. Ideally this means we'd stick to
> > > mostly POSIX options source code that we can compile with unmodified
> > > compilers, and we push non-standard stuff into otherly-named
> > > functions.
>
> > Yeah, this isn't actually a problem. printf("%b", foo) compiles fine
> > with non-modified compilers.
>
> It compiles only if you disable format string warnings that should not
> be disabled for any serious software development, in my humble opinion.
> It will build, but not in a way I can call "fine".
>
> This indeed makes it very hard to justify extensions to format strings.
> Special formatting will need to use new functions.
> I think it is pretty clear that there are too many people requesting the revert for the revert not to be done. Bapt
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