Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Alejandro Colomar wrote on Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 08:26:38PM +0200:
>
> > This patch adds a new feature to the ``printf`` family of functions:
> > ``%B`` conversion specifier for printing unsigned numbers in binary.
>
> No. We do not want non-standard extensions to standar
Hi,
Alejandro Colomar wrote on Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 08:26:38PM +0200:
> This patch adds a new feature to the ``printf`` family of functions:
> ``%B`` conversion specifier for printing unsigned numbers in binary.
No. We do not want non-standard extensions to standard functions
unless they provid
Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> I also sent today a patch to add this specifier to glibc. They are
> concerned about adding a new non-standard specifier, but if more C libs
> are going to add it at the same time, it may become a thing.
Sorry, but I doubt any of this is going to happen.
The action t
Hi all,
This patch adds a new feature to the ``printf`` family of functions:
``%B`` conversion specifier for printing unsigned numbers in binary.
Behaviour is exactly as with ``%X``, only changing the base (16 -> 2).
``%b`` is already in use by some ``printf(1)`` implementations, so I
didn't u
