linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 6/6] perf stat: implement --big-num grouping

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Date:	Sun, 21 Oct 2012 18:28:50 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Irina Tirdea <irina.tirdea@...il.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
	Irina Tirdea <irina.tirdea@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 6/6] perf stat: implement --big-num grouping


* Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 02:33:40AM +0300, Irina Tirdea wrote:
> > From: Irina Tirdea <irina.tirdea@...el.com>
> > 
> > In glibc, printf supports ' to group numbers with thousands' 
> > grouping characters. Bionic does not support ' for printf.
> > 
> > Implement thousands's grouping for numbers according to 
> > locale. The implementation uses the algorithm from glibc 
> > (http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/).
> > 
> > Bionic does not implement locales, so we need to add a 
> > configuration option LOCALE_SUPPORT. If it is not defined, 
> > default values for thousands separator and grouping are 
> > used.
> 
> Duplicating this in perf sounds like a hack. [...]

There's countless utility and compatibility 'hacks' in the Linux 
kernel too, which makes it a practical solution.

> [...] Does gnulib provide this feature?  It's the canonical 
> source for getting standards or helper functions on systems 
> that don't support them.

Unless Android comes with "gnulib" installed by default that's 
obviously not a solution.

What's your point?

Thanks,

	Ingo
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