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According to Jim Meyering on 10/30/2007 7:18 AM:
>> It's the xprintf.c code which calls vprintf(), bypassing printf(). Since
>> this is a detail that the gnulib user should not know about, we should
>> introduce a module 'xprintf-posix' that causes xprintf to have POSIX
>> semantics for the formatted output. It will depend on xprintf and
>> vprintf-posix. I'll do it later today if you don't beat me to it.
> 
> That makes sense.
> It will be less invasive, too.
> Thanks.  I'll let you do it :)

And we should probably do something similar by adding error-posix,
verror-posix, and xvasprintf-posix.  For example, m4 1.4.10 uses
xvasprintf for its `format' builtin, and I had to manually pull in
vasprintf-posix by looking at the implementation details of xvasprintf.c.

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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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