ARM Cortex-M Microcontroller startup files

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On Friday, 1 May 2015 at 07:15:58 UTC, Timo Sintonen wrote:
> I repeat here that there are several output devices in a board 
> at the same time like serial port and lcd display. Printf can 
> not be bound to one device at compile time.
> It is not hard to take the formatter out of printf and make it 
> a separate interface that can be connected to different 
> outputs. this way we do not need the libc dummies. I think this 
> is more the D and object oriented way. A hook sounds too much C 
> for me.

You can use std.format to get printf-style formatting and then 
pass the string to where you want.


> Even better would be a CTFE formatter. There was discussion 
> about this last year. Anybody knows the state?

There are quite a few people who want a CTFE formatter, I 
believe, but that also has the issue of causing a lot of code 
bloat. Remember also that you *can* use std.format.format at 
compile time:

enum str = "This is a %s".format("test");