[gmane.comp.lib.gnulib.bugs] new module 'vasnprintf-posix'

[Ben Pfaff]

There's a new module in Gnulib, "vasnprintf-posix", that I
believe should allow us to have a working snprintf under mingw.
I think that it also adds support for the "z" format type
modifier, so that we could get rid of a bunch of casts in calls
to printf and related functions.

I haven't tried it yet.

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From: Bruno Haible <address@hidden>
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Subject: new module 'vasnprintf-posix'
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 00:28:55 +0100

The module vasnprintf-posix defines a vasnprintf() function that supports
POSIX format strings with all frills.

2007-03-04  Bruno Haible  <address@hidden>

        * modules/vasnprintf-posix: New file.
        * lib/vasnprintf.c: Include isnan.h, isnanl.h, printf-frexp.h,
        printf-frexpl.h.
        (VASNPRINTF): Handle the 'a' and 'A' directives here, if needed.
        * m4/vasnprintf.m4 (gl_REPLACE_VASNPRINTF): New macro, extracted from
        gl_FUNC_VASNPRINTF.
        (gl_FUNC_VASNPRINTF): Invoke it.
        * m4/vasnprintf-posix.m4: New file.
        * m4/printf.m4: New file.

=========================== modules/vasnprintf-posix =========================
Description:
POSIX compatible vsprintf with automatic memory allocation and bounded output
size.

Files:
m4/vasnprintf-posix.m4
m4/printf.m4

Depends-on:
vasnprintf
isnan-nolibm
isnanl-nolibm
printf-frexp
printf-frexpl

configure.ac:
gl_FUNC_VASNPRINTF_POSIX

Makefile.am:

Include:
"vasnprintf.h"

License:
LGPL

Maintainer:
Bruno Haible


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