Re: [AD] usnprintf()

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On 2005-06-18, Evert Glebbeek <eglebbk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> As I'm sure everyone will see as soon as they try to look it up, Allegro 
> doesn't have a usnprintf() as a counter part to libc's snprintf() (C99).
> Or rather, it does, but with the name uszprintf(). This is somewhat 
> annoying and confusing. Would there be objectjons to adding usnprintf() as 
> an alias for uszprintf()?

Yes.  Among the Allegro string functions, the non-'z' functions are
consistently the badly designed ones which should be avoided.

> I'd prefer for 4.2, but I'm hesitant to do it there (feature-freeze and 
> all), but at least for 4.3?

I'd rather relegate all of the ustr* functions at some stage, but that's
another discussion.

Peter





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