[PATCH v2 02/30] ldbl-128ibm-compat: Add wide character printing functions

[Paul E Murphy]

On 11/4/19 12:10 PM, Gabriel F. T. Gomes wrote:
> Hi, Paul,
> 
> On Mon, 04 Nov 2019, Paul E Murphy wrote:
>>
>> Is it prohibitively difficult to merge the wide character tester with
>> the one in the previous patch? Otherwise, this looks OK too.
> 
> It's not difficult...  In fact, that's how I started it, but it ended up
> being too hard to read (imo, anyway), because of the excessive use of
> macros and because of the not so nice correspondence between function
> names.
> 
> I suppose you're suggesting it so that we have less code duplication.
> I can make the merge...  It's just not how I would do it.

I can agree with this line of reasoning. I think the tradeoff made by 
these patches is OK. I don't think these tests will see much change once 
merged.