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Re:Zig 0.7.1 Released – 69 bugs fixed by scatters on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:01AM (#25416240)
"printf" isn't magical, it's a standard va_args function. There's plenty of ugliness in the implementation [1] (so many macros!) but that's to be expected from something that has to simultaneously parse a format string and format output. The only magic is around format string checking.

1. https://github.com/bminor/glibc/blob/glibc-2.32/stdio-common...

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Re:Zig 0.7.1 Released – 69 bugs fixed by MaxBarraclough on Monday December 14, 2020 @10:00AM (#25418293)
> The only magic is around format string checking

Also the compiler is likely to optimise most calls to printf, transforming them into calls to other functions like puts [0], or apparently [1] even to fwrite. Probably doesn't count as magic, but almost.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/q/44406798/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23308893

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