Re: CVS commit: src/lib/libutil

[Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>]

On Mon, Apr 08, 2024 at 23:31:16 +0200, Roland Illig wrote:

> Am 08.04.2024 um 21:18 schrieb Valery Ushakov:
> >   "=\017FIFTEEN\0"
> >
> > with its result a few lines below that has:
> >
> >   BURST=0xf=FIFTEEN
> 
> Thank you for explaining this example. I had a gut feeling that there
> would be some hidden correlation between some octal/hexadecimal
> combinations, but I couldn't name it. Indeed, if the number base for
> output is hexadecimal, the field comparisons should be done in
> hexadecimal as well.
> 
> I adjusted the description and examples in the manual page accordingly.

Thanks!  My unscientific impression is that snprintb(3) was not very
popular and its uses sometimes are a bit of a cargo-cult, so existing
use cases have to be taken with a grain of salt and don't necessarily
represent good style.  This is why improving the docs with good
examples is important, imho.


-uwe