implement asnprintf, take 2

[Jeff Johnston]

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 03:12:24PM -0400, Jeff Johnston wrote:
>> Eric Blake wrote:
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>>> According to Jeff Johnston on 4/30/2007 3:28 PM:
>>>> Hi Eric,
>>>>
>>>>  I'm not seeing an explanation for the following code change you have
>>>> made in vfprintf.c:
>>>>
>>>> @@ -1247,13 +1201,13 @@ number:                 if ((dprec = prec) >= 0)
>>>>                                if (_fpvalue == 0) {
>>>>                                        /* kludge for __dtoa
>>>> irregularity */
>>>>                                        PRINT ("0", 1);
>>>> -                                       if (expt < ndig || (flags & ALT)
>>>> != 0) {
>>>> +                                       if (ndig || flags & ALT) {
>>>>                                                PRINT (decimal_point, 1);
>>>>                                                PAD (ndig - 1, zeroes);
>>>>                                        }
>>>>
>>>> Note the check expt < ndig has been replaced with ndig.
>>> Any other holdups from checking the rest of the patch in once this hunk is
>>> reverted?
>>>
>> No, please go ahead.  I was looking at a more clever way to do the 
>> ELIX_LEVEL checking, but it doesn't work.
> 
> Do we still need to worry about ELIX anymore, Jeff?
> 

We will continue to maintain it.

-- Jeff J.