Dear Rasmus, In message <[email protected]> you wrote: > > I think this allows a lone % to appear at the end of the string after > the actual %d, i.e. it seems "%d bla %" would be accepted.
there are a lot of highly unintuitive restrictions in that code, indeed. > I think allowing "arbitrary" format strings, restricted to those > expected exactly one integer argument, is too fragile and error-prone. Indeed. See for example the "printf" (bash) shell builtin - we should have a similar flexibility here. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, Managing Director: Wolfgang Denk HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: [email protected] Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition. - Isaac Asimov
