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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] printf: add support for %de
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On Mon, 2020-01-20 at 09:55 +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> this is an reiteration of my patch from some time ago that introduced
> %dE with the same semantic. Back then this resulted in the support for
> %pe which was less contentious.
> 
> I still consider %de (now with a small 'e' to match %pe) useful.

I still think this is not a good idea at all.

There really should be no need to introduce more
odd vsprintf extensions.

%p<foo> should be enough.