Clay McClure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Quoting Yann POUPET <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > 1. What are the needs ?
> > 2. What is the best way to do this ?
> > 3. Where should it be done ?
>
> The most convenient and flexible way to accomplish this might be to add a new
> conversion specifier to printf(), sprintf(), and friends. Perhaps "%m"
> and "%M"
> would be good choices, indicating that we want a scaled string that includes
> *m*etric prefixes (K, M, G, etc for "%m"; Kilo, Mega, Giga, etc for "%M").
This does not really make sense as this would soon make printf unusable.
Note that POSIX may like to add other different new format specs.
A better idea would be to enhance printf to allow overloading the format specs.
There are some ideas on FreeBSD and from David Korn.....
I did also have some ideas but due to OpenSolaris I habe not enough time
Jörg
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