parsing the format string at compile time...

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1856 at xyzzy.UUCP> meissner at tiktok.UUCP (Michael Meissner) writes:
>The ANSI standard gives explicit license for implementations
>to 'know' about any of the standard functions in section 4.

Just to make sure nobody misunderstands, that's true for HOSTED implementations
only.  Standalone implementations do NOT know about the Section 4 functions.

Hosted implementations are the ones that most programmers will care about.
Standalone implementations are of interest for imbedded system and operating
system programmers (to take the most obvious examples).