Re: gl_{,SN}PRINTF_DIRECTIVE_N wrongly fail on Ubuntu 18.04

[Paul Eggert]

On 3/8/20 5:11 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> > > it would
> > > make sense for gnulib to have "nearly POSIX" compliant variants of these
> > > functions; this would remove the need for the gnulib*printf*  code in
> > > many cases.
> > this sounds like a good idea.
> Paul, Eric, what's your opinion on this?

Might be helpful for programs that don't want to use %n.

Perhaps also there should be some way to tell glibc "Hey, I want to use %n even 
though I want the other fortification features." That'd be an improvement over 
what we have now. For what it's worth, GNU Emacs (which I happen to be working 
on right now) uses %n.