[parisc-linux] Building packages, problems with printf

Matthew Wilcox matthew@wil.cx
Mon, 26 Mar 2001 00:44:40 +0100


On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 12:42:46AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Earn brownie points sending off proper fixes to package maintainers. :)
> 
> Most package maintainers wont bother. printf as a macro breaks too much code
> to be 'interesting' to fix. Many people take the address of printf for 
> passing to functions using multiple I/O output methods

you can still do that.  it's still an external function, but for
`optimisation' purposes calls to it go to fprintf.  i think this is a
worthless optimisation myself.

perhaps you can convince drepper of this?  :-)

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