Michael McConville wrote:
> FP has been undefined for at least ten years, and probably forever.
> It's used to conditionally add two small sections and one large
> section of shf.c.
> 
> My initial reaction is that FP should be removed. Is there any reason
> to keep it? Should the associated code stay or go?

To be (far) more specific, it's used to enable the 'e', 'g', and 'f'
fields of ksh's vfprintf() clone. On one hand, this can't be too
important if it was disabled for >10 years. On the other, the code at
least compiles...

It seems that there's a lot of good cleanup to be done in ksh. There are
many hacks and reimplementations that seem to be remnants of a time when
you couldn't rely on standards much.

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