[dpdk-dev] Why rte_snprintf at all?

[Rogers, Gerald]

Bruce, Stephen,

It may be a duplicate, but people are likely using it.  I would assume
deprecate means don¹t remove, but put in a comment that says please don¹t
use and migrate your code away from it.

Thanks,

Gerald

On 6/23/14, 3:18 PM, "Richardson, Bruce" <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Hemminger
>> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2014 10:16 AM
>> To: dev at dpdk.org
>> Subject: [dpdk-dev] Why rte_snprintf at all?
>> 
>> Why does rte_snprintf exist? It seems like a misunderstanding or broken
>> implementation of snprintf in some other C library. For standard Glibc,
>> I get same result from rte_snprintf and snprintf for all inputs
>>including
>> boundary cases
>
>It can indeed probably be deprecated in next release. Any objections?
>
>/Bruce