[Laszlo-dev] Re: printf question

[Max Carlson]

It would be great to refactor your printf code into a utility class so 
it's easy to use outside the debugger...

-Max

P T Withington wrote:
> I confess I was referring to the Darwin man page when I implemented 
> Debug.format.  Personally, I do not think it is important to go into 
> more detail.  But surely there must be a POSIX standard that you should 
> be referring to, if you refer to anything.  (And then I should check 
> that what I implemented conforms to that POSIX spec.
> 
> On 24 Jan 2006, at 09:21, John Sundman wrote:
> 
>> The Dguide chapter on debugging merely says "The standard printf 
>> conversions are accepted, with the exception of a, n, and p" , but it 
>> does not say what these standard conversions are.
>>
>> You can find them on the net, for example, here:
>>
>> http://www.cplusplus.com/ref/cstdio/printf.html
>>
>> Questions:
>>
>> a) These are all derived from C, n'est-ce pas?
>>
>> b) Is there a public domain description of these conversions 
>> anywhere?   I would like to include a table in the dguide but don't 
>> want to violate anybody's copyright -- and it certainly would be 
>> easier to cut-n-paste a table than to make up a new one.
>>
>> c) If there is no public domain description, is there a preferred 
>> place I should link to?  I just used the one above because it came out 
>> tops from a google search.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> jrs
>>
> 
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