[PATCH] add '-' glibc extension to strftime(3)

[Xin LI]

Hi, Peter,

On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 05:43:53PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> > It turns out that the GNU extension '-' in their strftime(3) implementation
> > is somewhat popular in several applications.  The patch in the last part of
> > this e-mail will add a simulate implementation for it.
> 
[snip]
> > @@ -216,6 +216,8 @@
> >  is replaced by national representation of the date and time
> >  (the format is similar to that produced by
> >  .Xr date 1 ) .
> > +.It Cm %-*
> > +GLIBC extensions.  Do not do padding when making output.
> 
> In mdoc manual pages, it is customary to start new sentences on a new
> line, avoiding the so-called "hard sentence break" of two spaces :)

Hmm...  So I really need to read more mdoc(7) :-)  Thanks!

> > +				pt = _conv(t->tm_mday, (Palternative == PAD_LESS) ?
> > +					"%d" : "%2d",
> 
> In view of future extensions (PAD_SPACE, etc), could this not be done
> better with an array of printf format specifiers, indexed by
> Palternative?

Yes for sure.  I will make these changes ASAP.

I'm looking for a piece of code example in our library because
I seemed to need multiple dimensional array, and I wanted to keep the code
more readable (and easier to extend).

Cheers,
-- 
Xin LI <delphij frontfree net>	http://www.delphij.net/
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