Re: [avr-gcc-list] Poll: Who uses itoa() & co with base != {2, 8, 10, 16}?

[Christopher X. Candreva]

On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Joerg Wunsch wrote:

> The only drawback of that approach is that its use will restrict the
> posible base of these functions to either 2, 8, 10, or 16.

> I tend to see this as benign, as I cannot imagine why anyone would
> want to print out numbers base 7 or base 13, so I'm inclined to
> replace the existing itoa() family by Dmitry's submission.  When doing
> so, I'll probably rename the existing implementations to itoa_full()
> etc. to preserve them in case anyone really needs that functionality.

I would agree, the savings are worth the trade off in this case.

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