On Fri, 11 Sep 2015 23:41:40 -0400, Michael McConville wrote: > 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...
When I last checked the FP code for ksh's builtin printf was not correct/complete. Once upon a I took a stab at replacing ksh's mini-stdio with the libc one but never got it working 100%. > 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. Indeed. - todd
