Darren J Moffat <Darren.Moffat at sun.com> wrote:
> I don't think that is a good idea. None of the other platforms I viewed
> have this and we didn't have this with SunOS 4.x either. More
> importantly I don't like the idea of having to check an environment
> variable on every printf(3C) family call, there could be a noticable
> performance hit for that.
If you only do it in case of a error situation like a passed NULL pointer, I
cannot see a perfoemance problem.
J?rg
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