Re: [Mingw-users] Multiple definition of `_printf' with when using __USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO

[Alexander S. <ash...@gm...>]

Hello,

On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 21:48:21 +0100
Keith Marshall <kei...@us...> wrote:

> On Tuesday 01 September 2009 09:46:36 Alexander Shaduri wrote:
> > I'm resending this message because I haven't received any post
> > acknowledgmenet from sourceforge for 3 days.
> 
> This is precisely why we prefer you to file bug reports on the 
> tracker, rather than on the list.  It isn't that we like to be 
> awkward, (as some might suggest); on the tracker, you get an 
> automatic acknowledgment that your report has been successfully 
> filed, and an automatic confirmation when a developer picks up the 
> assignment.

Sorry, I'll file them on the tracker next time.

> Instead, you got no confirmation of your original post, and now, by 
> impatiently demanding one, you distract me from the task, which I 
> had already begun, of identifying and resolving the bug.

Well, I was demanding a confirmation from sourceforge, not you. :)
Sourceforge has been known to swallow emails (happened to me
lots of times). Since I already had resolved that issue by using
fprintf(stdout, ...), I just wanted to make sure that the information
was received by the list (I was not in any hurry for the fix). As for
the impatient part, 3 days for an automated confirmation is more
than enough, is it not?

Anyway, sorry if my email involunteerly caused you any discomfort,
and thank you for fixing the bug.

> > It seems that the implementation has
> > some problems though, as evidenced by the errors above.
> 
> Well, it isn't unusual for a new implementation to experience a few 
> teething troubles; that this one hasn't surfaced before suggests 
> that it doesn't get a lot of exposure.

I guess that's probably due to insufficient documentation. I, myself,
stumbled across that feature only by chance, while searching the mingw
headers for something completely different. Perhaps a centralized
(non-.h-suffixed) document describing all such features would
solve that. (Unless it exists already and I missed it somehow).

Thanks,
Alexander