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Re: [OT] Is od broken?


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: [OT] Is od broken?
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:28:10 -0600
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According to Paul Eggert on 6/11/2008 5:09 PM:
| Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:
|
|> -    printf (fmt_string, *p++);
|> +    printf (fmt_string, pad, "", *p++);
|
| How about doing padding this way instead?
|
|         printf (fmt_string, width, *p++);;

It looks cleaner, if we stick with fixed-width padding (and lots of extra
space).  But I like the compressed end-result that occurs when using v2 of
the patch, where variable-width padding becomes more apparent.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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