[OSUNIX-dev] Re: [hpcdev-discuss] Porting open64 to solaris

[John Martin]

Joerg Schilling wrote:
> John Martin <John.M.Martin at Sun.COM> wrote:
>
>   
>> This biggest headache I had doing the port was asprintf()/vasprintf().
>> There was a lot of code that used these functions.  Once we have this 
>> with b107,
>> it will make things a lot easier.
>>     
>
> With the private format() based printf() implementation I have in libschily,
> an implementation of the a*print*() functions is simple and can be done in 10 
> minutes.
>
>   
I wrote my own also, but that was the trivial part of the work.
It was the header and library issues, changing the build environment
in a way that wouldn't break other platforms and would allow
the official versions of asprintf()/vasprintf() to be used once they
were delivered.