* TODO: Add item: remove uses of imaxtostr.

2026-08-12 12:00:21 +02:00 · 2008-06-26 21:16:17 +02:00
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@@ -14,6 +14,13 @@ document the following in coreutils.texi:
  uptime
 Also document the SELinux changes.

+Suggestion from Paul Eggert:
+  More generally, there's not that much use for imaxtostr nowadays,
+  since the inttypes module and newer versions of gettext allow things
+  like _("truncating %s at %" PRIdMAX " bytes") to work portably.
+  I suspect that (if someone cares to take the time) we can remove
+  all instances of imaxtostr and umaxtostr in coreutils and gnulib.
+
 cp --recursive: use fts and *at functions to perform directory traversals
  in source and destination hierarchy rather than forming full file names.
  The latter (current) approach fails unnecessarily when the names