# Christian Biere 2007-02-02:
> Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> > libsa' snprintf ends up in vsnprintf() which return `sbuf - buf', `buf'
> > is our buffer, `sbuf' is a cursor inside the buffer, so it can't 
> > return -1.
> 
> Ok, I was looking at the wrong implementation (sys/kern/subr_prf.c).
> sys/lib/libsa/subr_prf.c
> seems to be the relevant one. Is that just a fallback which is effectively
> unused?

It's used by standalone code -- libsa is kind of "libc on steroids"
for bootloaders and such. Take a look at sys/arch/*/stand/*.

> I don't see how that code supports field-widths (e.g., "%-39s").

The implementation needs to stay as small as possible.

	-- Jachym