Re: g_print vs printf

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Peter Jay Salzman <p dirac org> writes:
> i'm curious why gtk replaced printf with g_print as a printing function.
>
> does it help portability?   isn't printf standardized by ANSI?

The only real value to g_print() is that you can use it without
including stdio.h. It's mostly useless.

Oh, also you can g_set_print_handler(), which is useful from time to
time.

Havoc