Subject: Re: port-xen/29887: sysctl kern.consdev coredumps
To: James Chacon <jmc@NetBSD.org>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 06/21/2005 14:06:44
On Jun 21, 2005, at 1:53 PM, James Chacon wrote:

> i.e. we should now have printfEx for anything printf related the  
> standard
> didn't cover...

In the NetBSD case, it could even be a weak symbol that points to  
printf!  By doing this, you are telling the implementation that you  
are explicitly relying on extensions (how is the implementation to  
know otherwise that you expect NULL to really mean "(null)"?).

-- thorpej