Why not use dprintf instead of nprintf?

[mstewartgallus]

It's in POSIX ≥ 2008.

[riolet]

Hi Steve,

From the man page:

   These  functions  are  GNU extensions, not in C or POSIX.  Clearly, the
   names were badly chosen.  Many systems (like MacOS)  have  incompatible
   functions called dprintf(), usually some debugging version of printf(),
   perhaps with a prototype like

   void dprintf (int level, const char *format, ...);

   where the first parameter is  a  debugging  level  (and  output  is  to
   stderr).  Moreover, dprintf() (or DPRINTF) is also a popular macro name
   for a debugging printf.  So, probably, it is better to avoid this func-
   tion in programs intended to be portable.

   A better name would have been fdprintf().

If you are willing to do a pull request with the correct #ifdef macros
defining, say FDPRINTF, to gracefully fall back to our home brewed
nprintf(), we could certainly use it.

On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Steven Stewart-Gallus <
notifications@github.com> wrote:

It's in POSIX >= = 2008.

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