Re: [PATCH] printf: add %#s alias to %b

[Dragan Simic]

On 2023-09-06 17:10, Robert Elz wrote:
> Date:        Wed, 06 Sep 2023 12:28:34 +0200
>     From:        Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org>
>     Message-ID:  <03abecb9d905252bd63867d1c8b2a948@manjaro.org>
>
>   | It's good to know that the
>   | 2013, 2016 and 2018 versions/revisions of POSIX actually don't 
> count.
>
> As Chet said, that is not what I meant.   The "don't count" was in
> relation to measuring the time between new versions, as TCs aren't
> allowed to add or delete features (which actuslly removing %b from
> printf(1) would be) only a whole new version can do that.
>
> It is however possible that I misremembered the dates, and that it
> was the 6th version which was 2008, with the 7th being 2013, or
> something (the one currently nearing completion is #8).   Regardless,
> it is clear that #9, which is the first possibility for removing
> %b, assuming that #8 continues to say it might happen (which I
> suspect it won't, but we'll see) is many years into the future yet.

Ah, I see, thank you for the clarification.  Your response arrived while 
I was writing my other message to the list, so I didn't see it before 
hitting the "send" button.