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

[Chet Ramey]

On 9/6/23 6:28 AM, Dragan Simic wrote:

> > No invalidation would be happening now, merely a note in the coming standard
> > that the %b in printf(1) would (might) be removed in a later version of
> > the standard - so implementations have time to implement something to
> > replace it, and applications to stop using %b in printf(1).   The next
> > version of the standard isn't likely for at least another decade (the
> > coming one isn't finished yet, and that's not the next that counts here,
> > and later issues that are merely corrections (TCs) don't count either).
> > [As a reference for timelines, the current POSIX standard is from 2008,
> > though a couple of TCs have followed it - that's 15 years already
> > between versions.]
>
> Thank you for this detailed clarification.  It's good to know that the 
> 2013, 2016 and 2018 versions/revisions of POSIX actually don't count.

That's not what he said.

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