[PATCH v2 0/3] Add stpe*() functions

Zack Weinberg zack@owlfolio.org
Thu Dec 29 00:01:49 GMT 2022


On Wed, Dec 28, 2022, at 6:17 PM, Alejandro Colomar via Libc-alpha wrote:
> This version of the patch set adds the [v]stpeprintf() functions, which
> are more necessary than stpecpy(3).  snprintf(3) is the only way to
> catenate formatted strings, and it's really bad for that.

I don't necessarily _oppose_ the addition of these functions but I wonder
whether the uses you have in mind would be satisfied by open_memstream() +
fprintf().

zw


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