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From: "Rogers, Gerald" <gerald.rogers-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: Why rte_snprintf at all?
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 22:25:00 +0000
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Bruce, Stephen,

It may be a duplicate, but people are likely using it.  I would assume
deprecate means don=B9t remove, but put in a comment that says please don=
=B9t
use and migrate your code away from it.

Thanks,

Gerald

On 6/23/14, 3:18 PM, "Richardson, Bruce" <bruce.richardson-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Hemminger
>> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2014 10:16 AM
>> To: dev-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org
>> Subject: [dpdk-dev] Why rte_snprintf at all?
>>=20
>> 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