linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] perf stat: add compile-time option to disable --big-num

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Date:	Fri, 14 Sep 2012 07:40:43 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Irina Tirdea <irina.tirdea@...il.com>
Cc:	mingo@...hat.com, acme@...stprotocols.net, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl,
	rostedt@...dmis.org, paulus@...ba.org, dsahern@...il.com,
	namhyung.kim@....com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Irina Tirdea <irina.tirdea@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] perf stat: add compile-time option to disable
 --big-num


* Irina Tirdea <irina.tirdea@...il.com> wrote:

> From: Irina Tirdea <irina.tirdea@...el.com>
> 
> In printf's format, ' is used to group the output with thousands' grouping
> characters for decimal conversion. Bionic does not support ' for printf.

Please try to solve compatibility without affecting the default 
output and big num is the default perf stat output.

Could the big num output be implemented within perf, without 
relying on glibc's printf implementation?

Thanks,

	Ingo
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