Roberto E. Vargas Caballero, Thu, 19 Dec 2013:
I'm confused about what you're trying to accomplish here.
How about you just copy the format part from the for loop up there and
throw it into the standard library's printf?
I agree!
This strongly smells like NiH-syndrome. Considering we have suckless
standard libraries like uClibc, which we could link statically to by
default some day in the future, we can safely assume letting the stdlib
I think you are lossing something important here. When you execute
printf in a program you have the variables which you want to pass
to printf, or in the case of vprintf you have the va_list, but
in this case you don't have any of them. You cannot call to printf
(or vprintf, or sprintf, or vsprintf) with an array of pointers
to chars (argv), so you have to forgot the library routines.
Exactly. Not to mention, what if the user did this:
printf '%f\n' 2
If you "throw it into the standard library's printf", even forgetting
about how we do that, you'd still interpret 2 as an int, when printf
expects a float. And that's only the beginning, what about %n, or not
passing enough arguments?
Rob
