standards/51292: [PATCH] add ecvt()/fcvt()/gcvt() functions (SUSv3)

[Garrett Wollman]

The following reply was made to PR standards/51292; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Garrett Wollman <wollman at lcs.mit.edu>
To: David Schultz <das at freebsd.org>
Cc: "Sergey A. Osokin" <osa at freebsd.org.ru>,
	FreeBSD-gnats-submit at freebsd.org, freebsd-standards at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: standards/51292: [PATCH] add ecvt()/fcvt()/gcvt() functions
	(SUSv3)
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 13:38:38 -0400 (EDT)

 <<On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 06:11:09 -0700, David Schultz <das at freebsd.org> said:
 
 > Nobody uses these functions anymore, so it doesn't seem particularly
 > useful to implement them now, given that snprintf() provides almost
 > equivalent functionality.
 
 However, it doesn't hurt to have them, even if we are not targeting
 XSI compliance.
 
 > Any active standards that still require them will most likely drop
 > them in the near future.
 
 POSIX has a five-year review cycle.
 
 -GAWollman