Re: Android port

[Po Lu]

Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:

> On 2023-08-05 22:24, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Paul didn't chime in yet, so I'd like to wait for him to comment on
>> this.  I see no reason why we would be unable to omit these modules
>> like we do with others.
>
> I don't either, but I hope we don't have to worry about it.
>
> As I understand it the Android port uses Gnulib printf-posix and
> vasprintf-posix modules only because Android printf lacks support for
> "%td", "%jd" and "%ju". If this understanding is correct, how about if
> we go through the printf formats in the Emacs C source code, and
> replace all uses of "%jd" and "%ju" with "%"PRIdMAX and "%"PRIuMAX,
> and all uses of "%td" with "%"pT"d" where pT is an Emacs invention
> defined like this:

And also %n (used in the rest of Emacs), which aborts on Android for
``security'' reasons...