Re: [RFC] New markers description without format strings

On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 11:30:14AM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> Since I don't need to express anything else than the types expected
> (unlike printf, no text is required), the function that marshalls the
> variable arguments could be implemented more efficiently using a switch
> on a type enumeration rather that parsing the format string (which I
> currently do : it's inspired from vsnprintf).
> 
> Since I have to extend the standard format strings with new types
> (telling explicitly how to expect a 32 or 64 bits integer in a portable
> manner in architecture independant code, or how to serialize an array, or
> a struct), I currently added the following tweaks to the format strings
> expected by the markers.

That's probably a good argument, especially if we could actually do some
typechecking on the arguments to reject probes on mismatching markers.

Then again I really like format strings for some reason..