From: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
To: Vito Caputo <vcaputo@pengaru.com>, libc-help@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: strftime() _GNU_SOURCE extension request
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2021 16:31:31 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bb5f2be8-6c6b-7e3f-7071-7775117c3fa0@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210925061529.4dmdq3rbuvettzhr@shells.gnugeneration.com>
On 25/09/2021 03:15, Vito Caputo wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I'd like to propose a _GNU_SOURCE extension for strftime() treating
> str=NULL similarly to snprintf()'s C99 handling of str=NULL; write
> nothing to str, but return the number of bytes that /would/ be written
> if str were non-NULL and sufficiently large.
It sounds reasonable, I would suggestion you to check if gnulib is
willing to push for such change all well, since the code came from
them originally.
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2021-09-25 6:15 Vito Caputo
2021-10-07 19:31 ` Adhemerval Zanella [this message]
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