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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