Joerg Schilling wrote: > "C. Bergstr?m" <cbergstrom at netsyncro.com> wrote: > > >> Thanks a lot for letting me know this.. I'm not sure it's something we >> can send upstream, but maybe the open64 guys can make a suggestion? I'd >> much rather link/use maintained code instead of the roll-your-own >> approach for every missing function.. Almost as soon as snv_107 was >> > > printf() is a major problem for extended portability of software. > Larger project groups that like to support a high portability level > all seem to have own printf implementations in their portability frame work. > My implementation has the advantage of being cleanly portable and without > being bound to stdio. In the mid 1980s when other people had problems to > port csh because of it's own stdio-less printf() written in VAX asembler, > it took me 10 minutes to relace the implementation by something portable ;-) > > >> tagged we started the port. It's been a TODO item for a while and I >> actually have license compatible implementations of >> asprintf()/vasprintf()wasprintf()/wvasprintf() functions.. not to >> mention they were in libast iirc.. Anyway.. like I said in the other >> email.. I have to get a new build log so we can hunt for errors and then >> > > my code is under CDDL. David Korn has it's own portability world that > although it is different in many places is based on mainly the same > ideas for portability. > > If you e.g. don't know whether a local printf() supports %j %z or %t > you save time in the long run if you have your own printf() with you. > > > I think h3sp4wn has made good progress..
Here's the latest build log.. http://bugs.osunix.org/secure/attachment/10009/open64-build-log-28-01-2009 I just glanced at it, but looks like Elf32_Word and friends is undefined.. ../include/elf_stuff.h:57:23: warning: sys/cdefs.h: No such file or directory pm me if you'd like access to the env to help or look around. ./C
