Yes, I am aware of those constraints, and that proper and effecient engineering helped
to sell Palm devices well.
But, it would seem to me, that among what is implemented, such as sprintf, could have
been implemented fully, or at least can be now. Oh well, my $0.02. I'm more curious
as towards why they implented this function partially. If it is the same reason all of
stdio was not implemented, ok. It just seems weird to partially implement something,
even though it's done all the time.
-Jason
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The story is that there wasn't enough memory or CPU speed in the original
pilots for this. Conforming to a standard such as <stdio.h> has a cost to
it and Palm was not willing to pay the price. Palm's sell well because they
are easy to use and are inexpensive. Very few if any Palm device purchases
are made on the fact of conforming to standards like workstations or
cellphones.
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