Customizing printf
 

Recently I was wondering how to extend lcc-win's printf to support 128
bit integers, and searching the net I found this:

http://www.gnu.org/s/hello/manual/li...ng-Printf.html

Apparently gcc has an interface for customizing printf that looks quite
interesting.

I would like to know if anybody here has experience with using this, I
am considering implementing it in lcc-win.

Thanks

Re: Customizing printf
 

On 11/15/2011 08:36 AM, jacob navia wrote:
> http://www.gnu.org/s/hello/manual/li...ng-Printf.html
>
> Apparently gcc has an interface for customizing printf that looks quite
> interesting.
>
> I would like to know if anybody here has experience with using this, I
> am considering implementing it in lcc-win.

I've never used GCC's (actually, the GNU C Library's) extendible printf,
but I have used Plan 9's libfmt, which has a similar idea. A Unix port
is available at <http://swtch.com/plan9port/unix/>. It's a nice
extension, on occasion.

By the way, if you generally use Microsoft's C library in lcc-win, you
might warn your users that MS printf extensions they're used to using
are no longer there.

--Joel

Re: Customizing printf
 

jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> writes:

> Recently I was wondering how to extend lcc-win's printf to support 128
> bit integers, and searching the net I found this:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/s/hello/manual/li...ng-Printf.html
>
> Apparently gcc has an interface for customizing printf that looks quite
> interesting.

One reason that I have never used glibc's extensible printf is
that GCC can't be configured to type-check the arguments for
extensions, so you get warnings for correct use of extensions.
--
Ben Pfaff
http://benpfaff.org

Re: Customizing printf
 

Le 15/11/11 19:10, Ben Pfaff a écrit :
> jacob navia<jacob@spamsink.net> writes:
>
>> Recently I was wondering how to extend lcc-win's printf to support 128
>> bit integers, and searching the net I found this:
>>
>> http://www.gnu.org/s/hello/manual/li...ng-Printf.html
>>
>> Apparently gcc has an interface for customizing printf that looks quite
>> interesting.
>
> One reason that I have never used glibc's extensible printf is
> that GCC can't be configured to type-check the arguments for
> extensions, so you get warnings for correct use of extensions.

This will not happen in lcc-win. Check functions can be provided that
will be loaded by the compiler at startup or can be linked into the
compiler.

Re: Customizing printf
 

jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> writes:

> Le 15/11/11 19:10, Ben Pfaff a écrit :
>> jacob navia<jacob@spamsink.net> writes:
>>
>>> Recently I was wondering how to extend lcc-win's printf to support 128
>>> bit integers, and searching the net I found this:
>>>
>>> http://www.gnu.org/s/hello/manual/li...ng-Printf.html
>>>
>>> Apparently gcc has an interface for customizing printf that looks quite
>>> interesting.
>>
>> One reason that I have never used glibc's extensible printf is
>> that GCC can't be configured to type-check the arguments for
>> extensions, so you get warnings for correct use of extensions.
>
> This will not happen in lcc-win. Check functions can be provided that
> will be loaded by the compiler at startup or can be linked into the
> compiler.

I'm glad to hear that you are planning to avoid that problem. I
wish that GCC would also arrange a solution.
--
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={0x67dffdff,0x9aa9aa6a,0xa77ffda9,0x7da6aa6a,0xa6 7f6aaa,0xaa9aa9f6,0x11f6},*p
=b,i=24;for(;p+=!*p;*p/=4)switch(0[p]&3)case 0:{return 0;for(p--;i--;i--)case+
2:{i++;if(i)break;else default:continue;if(0)case 1:putchar(a[i&15]);break;}}}

Re: Customizing printf
 

On 11/15/2011 03:51 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> writes:
>> Le 15/11/11 19:10, Ben Pfaff a écrit :
>>> One reason that I have never used glibc's extensible printf is
>>> that GCC can't be configured to type-check the arguments for
>>> extensions, so you get warnings for correct use of extensions.
>>
>> This will not happen in lcc-win. Check functions can be provided that
>> will be loaded by the compiler at startup or can be linked into the
>> compiler.
>
> I'm glad to hear that you are planning to avoid that problem. I
> wish that GCC would also arrange a solution.

See the examples given for libfmt at
<http://swtch.com/plan9port/unix/man/fmtinstall3.html>. The example
includes #pragmas suitable for Ken Thompson's C compilers (as
distributed with Plan 9 or with Google Go):

#pragma varargck type "X" Complex

Hard to get much simpler than that...

JST

Re: Customizing printf
 

jacob navia was trying to save the world with his stuff:

> Recently I was wondering how to extend lcc-win's printf to support ...
> ...am considering implementing it in lcc-win.

You self-celebrating ****o. There only exist your things to you:
that silly lcc-win and your funny containers.
Stop making this newsgroup your personal advertisements page.

Re: Customizing printf
 

In article <nzOwq.98710$GZ3.88426@tornado.fastwebnet.it>,
-.- <none@none.none> wrote:
>jacob navia was trying to save the world with his stuff:
>
>> Recently I was wondering how to extend lcc-win's printf to support ...
>> ...am considering implementing it in lcc-win.
>
>You self-celebrating ****o. There only exist your things to you:
>that silly lcc-win and your funny containers.
>Stop making this newsgroup your personal advertisements page.

Looks like somebody didn't get enough mommy-love.

--
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also have a theory, which I've been hearing more and more - namely,
that President Obama, though not yet in office or even elected, caused the
2008 slump. You see, people were worried in advance about his future
policies, and that's what caused the economy to tank. Seriously.

(Paul Krugman - Addicted to Bush)

Re: Customizing printf
 

On 2011-11-16, -.- <none@none.none> wrote:
> jacob navia was trying to save the world with his stuff:
>> Recently I was wondering how to extend lcc-win's printf to support ...
>> ...am considering implementing it in lcc-win.

> There only exist your things to you:
> that silly lcc-win and your funny containers.
> Stop making this newsgroup your personal advertisements page.

I have Mr. Navia plonked because of his habit of random and unjustified
flames, so I thank you for calling that post to my attention, since it has
some cool ideas in a field I have previously thought about. I even got
as far as a test implementation of a printf which let you pass formatting
functions as arguments, although I never got around to a "register new
characters" feature.

-s
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Re: Customizing printf
 

Seebs <usenet-nospam@seebs.net> writes:
> On 2011-11-16, -.- <none@none.none> wrote:
> > jacob navia was trying to save the world with his stuff:
> >> Recently I was wondering how to extend lcc-win's printf to support ...
> >> ...am considering implementing it in lcc-win.
>
> > There only exist your things to you:
> > that silly lcc-win and your funny containers.
> > Stop making this newsgroup your personal advertisements page.
>
> I have Mr. Navia plonked because of his habit of random and unjustified
> flames, so I thank you for calling that post to my attention, since it has
> some cool ideas in a field I have previously thought about. I even got
> as far as a test implementation of a printf which let you pass formatting
> functions as arguments, although I never got around to a "register new
> characters" feature.

We should swap code - I implemented the "register new characters" feature...
(OK, there was one 'extension' character, and you registered new modifiers
to that.)

Phil
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