[CC -= Jon] Hi Bruno,
On 2025-12-15T01:11:03+0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: [...] > > Thanks for your work on these proposals, by the way: > > Thank you! :-) > > > - n3750, alx-0007r6 - add a malloc(3)-based sprintf(3) variant > > (similar to gnulib's xasprintf() and xvasprintf() functions), > > I expect we'll vote this one in March, or maybe July. I think it might > be accepted, but I'm not sure. I have news about this. The committee wants the API, but there's no agreement on the name. People have complained that aprintf() is too used in the wild, so it would break a lot of existing code. Then, people started proposing many nonsensical names... I think we have some alternatives. To be fair, I didn't fully like the name aprintf(), and am now more inclined to call it saprintf(). That is still used in the wild, but significantly less than aprintf(). Also, the 's' in the name marks it as being from the s*printf() sub-family. I think the breakage from saprintf() would be acceptable (just one hit in a Debian code search). I'll write a proposal, and we'll probably vote it by the end of this year. If gnulib likes this name, you're invited to provide it, which would hopefully add some points to the committee to follow existing implementations. Have a lovely night! Alex -- <https://www.alejandro-colomar.es>
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