Ingo Schwarze <schwa...@usta.de> wrote: > Alejandro Colomar wrote on Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 08:26:38PM +0200: > > > This patch adds a new feature to the ``printf`` family of functions: > > ``%B`` conversion specifier for printing unsigned numbers in binary. > > No. We do not want non-standard extensions to standard functions > unless they provide unusually important benefit and/or are very > widely supported elsewhere. > > > I also sent today a patch to add this specifier to glibc. They are > > concerned about adding a new non-standard specifier, but if more C libs > > are going to add it at the same time, it may become a thing. > > Usually, glibc is quite proactive about adding non-standard stuff > even if it is not really useful. If even they reject the idea, > OpenBSD certainly isn't the place to start campaigning.
"campaigning" -- good word. When non-standard APIs or additions are added, the usual reason is that a very common operation, done by-hand each time, tend to be highly error prone. Printing in binary? Not common. And I doubt it is error prone, either.
