From: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:16:17 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: * TODO: Add item: remove uses of imaxtostr.
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* TODO: Add item: remove uses of imaxtostr.
---

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 81add2005d..e7f0508219 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -14,6 +14,13 @@ document the following in coreutils.texi:
   uptime
 Also document the SELinux changes.
 
+Suggestion from Paul Eggert:
+  More generally, there's not that much use for imaxtostr nowadays,
+  since the inttypes module and newer versions of gettext allow things
+  like _("truncating %s at %" PRIdMAX " bytes") to work portably.
+  I suspect that (if someone cares to take the time) we can remove
+  all instances of imaxtostr and umaxtostr in coreutils and gnulib.
+
 cp --recursive: use fts and *at functions to perform directory traversals
   in source and destination hierarchy rather than forming full file names.
   The latter (current) approach fails unnecessarily when the names