From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1NIUA5-00054v-6g for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:33:29 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NIUA3-00053J-3s for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:33:27 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NIU9y-00052B-HH for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:33:26 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40248 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NIU9y-000528-BU for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:33:22 -0500 Received: from xvm-190-8.ghst.net ([217.70.190.8]:37682 helo=aybabtu.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NIU9x-0001EJ-Tw for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:33:22 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.10] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NIU9s-0003BA-Rl for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:33:18 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NIU9n-0001qr-Vo for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:33:11 +0100 Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 22:33:11 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GNU GRUB Message-ID: <20091209213311.GA7093@thorin> References: <20090902014939.GM13423@riva.ucam.org> <87vdjyac8a.wl%neal@walfield.org> <20091207164824.GF6439@riva.ucam.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091207164824.GF6439@riva.ucam.org> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce xasprintf X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:33:27 -0000 On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 04:48:24PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > I agree it's suboptimal, but I'm not sure this is possible without > shipping our own vsprintf implementation, which I would like to avoid > (gnulib does this properly, but it's much larger). For util/ code size is not such a big deal. Maintainability is much more important. If you need more Gnulib modules added, just let me know; there's no problem with importing more of it. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."