Subject: Re: lib/7063
To: None <lib-bug-people@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org,>
From: None <kleink@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 02/12/2005 19:25:33
Synopsis: gcvt(3) is missing
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: kleink@netbsd.org
State-Changed-When: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 19:25:32 +0000
State-Changed-Why:
These are legacy interfaces, and would be appropriate for libcompat
at most. Since XSH5 (I can't check 4.2 at the moment) the recommendation
has been to use sprintf(3) instead, which apparently has found wide
acceptance among application authors.