PEpeter_d_sherman·Mar 27, 2023Submission
Nanoprintf – The smallest public printf implementation for its feature set
3 points · Open discussioncharlesnicholson
nanoprintf
C++2019–2023
charlesnicholson / nanoprintf
nanoprintf
The smallest public printf implementation for its feature set.
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The smallest public printf implementation for its feature set.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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5 sourcesI ran into sprintf's dependence on locale recently when trying to use it in a WebAssembly module. Since I was compiling for the browser, I wanted to not depend on locale. Even setting aside the locale stuff, the wasi sdk still wanted to pull in file-related things like read/write/seek. I just wanted to do formatted print to a pre-existing buffer.
I ended up using nanoprintf — it's a single header file and in the public domain.
(https://github.com/charlesnicholson/nanoprintf)
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