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Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2022 08:59:37 -0700
From: enh <enh@...gle.com>
To: Keith Packard <keithp@...thp.com>
Cc: libc-coord@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: anyone else working on %b?
On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 3:34 PM enh <enh@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 1:55 PM Keith Packard <keithp@...thp.com> wrote:
> >
> > enh <enh@...gle.com> writes:
> >
> > > also: thoughts on whether you plan on supporting %B too? (is anyone
> > > already using %B for anything else?) in the absence of a
> > > counterargument, i'm assuming we should implement %B just for the 0b
> > > versus 0B with #?
> > > https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2630.pdf
> >
> > That document suggests that 'B' was used for something else and so
> > might not be safe to use here. Anyone know what that might be? I'm not
> > sure I'd feel great adding 'b' without knowing whether 'B' should be
> > supported as well.
>
> strictly the document says that since ISO C only reserves all
> _lowercase_ letters, in theory someone might have used an uppercase
> letter. i wasn't able to find a man page admitting to such a thing for
> any system i can think of (even weird stuff like inferno!), but i've
> separately mailed the author to check that my interpretation is
> correct.
(yeah, the author confirms that they're not aware of any other uses of %B.)
> tbh, unless there's something shockingly important i'm missing in
> terms of interop (and glibc's already weighed in, and i tested macOS,
> so -- no offense to anyone else -- that seems unlikely in practical
> terms), it feels like it would be a mistake for Android to _not_
> support %B.
>
> > --
> > -keith
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