> Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:07:48 +0100
> From: Sebastian Pipping <sebast...@pipping.org>
> CC: psm...@gnu.org, bug-make@gnu.org
> 
> So far both of these have been requirements: (1) keep the overall format
> translatable so other languages can adjust order of elements and (2) use
> C89 functions, only.  It seems that (1) requires function vsnprintf
> which violates (2).

Why does (1) violate (2)?  (1) will only be possible with C libraries
that support the n$ positional specifiers.  AFAIK, when these are
supported, they can be used with any of the *printf functions.

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