fmt::formatted_size
now works at compile time
(#3026). For example
(godbolt):
#include <fmt/compile.h>
int main() {
using namespace fmt::literals;
constexpr size_t n = fmt::formatted_size("{}"_cf, 42);
fmt::print("{}\n", n); // prints 2
}
Fixed handling of invalid UTF-8 (#3038, #3044, #3056). Thanks @phprus (Vladislav Shchapov) and @skeeto (Christopher Wellons).
Improved Unicode support in ostream
overloads of print
(#2994,
#3001,
#3025).
Thanks @dimztimz (Dimitrij Mijoski).
Fixed handling of the sign specifier in localized formatting on systems with
32-bit wchar_t
(#3041).
Added support for wide streams to fmt::streamed
(#2994).
Thanks @phprus (Vladislav Shchapov).
Added the n
specifier that disables the output of delimiters when
formatting ranges (#2981,
#2983).
For example (godbolt):
#include <fmt/ranges.h>
#include <vector>
int main() {
auto v = std::vector{1, 2, 3};
fmt::print("{:n}\n", v); // prints 1, 2, 3
}
Thanks @BRevzin (Barry Revzin).
Worked around problematic std::string_view
constructors introduced in
C++23 (#3030,
#3050).
Thanks @strega-nil-ms (nicole mazzuca).
Improve handling (exclusion) of recursive ranges (#2968, #2974). Thanks @Dani-Hub (Daniel Krügler).
Improved error reporting in format string compilation (#3055).
Improved the implementation of Dragonbox, the algorithm used for the default floating-point formatting (#2984). Thanks @jk-jeon (Junekey Jeon).
Fixed issues with floating-point formatting on exotic platforms.
Improved the implementation of chrono formatting (#3010). Thanks @phprus (Vladislav Shchapov).
Improved documentation (#2966, #3009, #3020, #3037). Thanks @mwinterb, @jcelerier (Jean-Michaël Celerier) and @remiburtin (Rémi Burtin).
Improved build configuration (#2991, #2995, #3004, #3007, #3040). Thanks @dimztimz (Dimitrij Mijoski) and @hwhsu1231 (Haowei Hsu).
Fixed various warnings and compilation issues (#2969, #2971, #2975, #2982, #2985, #2988, #3000, #3006, #3014, #3015, #3021, #3023, #3024, #3029, #3043, #3052, #3053, #3054). Thanks @h-friederich (Hannes Friederich), @dimztimz (Dimitrij Mijoski), @olupton (Olli Lupton), @bernhardmgruber (Bernhard Manfred Gruber), @phprus (Vladislav Shchapov).
Switched to the internal floating point formatter for all decimal presentation
formats. In particular this results in consistent rounding on all platforms
and removing the s[n]printf
fallback for decimal FP formatting.
Compile-time floating point formatting no longer requires the header-only mode. For example (godbolt):
#include <array>
#include <fmt/compile.h>
consteval auto compile_time_dtoa(double value) -> std::array<char, 10> {
auto result = std::array<char, 10>();
fmt::format_to(result.data(), FMT_COMPILE("{}"), value);
return result;
}
constexpr auto answer = compile_time_dtoa(0.42);
works with the default settings.
Improved the implementation of Dragonbox, the algorithm used for the default floating-point formatting (#2713, #2750). Thanks @jk-jeon (Junekey Jeon).
Made fmt::to_string
work with __float128
. This uses the internal
FP formatter and works even on system without __float128
support in
[s]printf
.
Disabled automatic std::ostream
insertion operator (operator<<
)
discovery when fmt/ostream.h
is included to prevent ODR violations.
You can get the old behavior by defining FMT_DEPRECATED_OSTREAM
but this
will be removed in the next major release. Use fmt::streamed
or
fmt::ostream_formatter
to enable formatting via std::ostream
instead.
Added fmt::ostream_formatter
that can be used to write formatter
specializations that perform formatting via std::ostream
.
For example (godbolt):
#include <fmt/ostream.h>
struct date {
int year, month, day;
friend std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& os, const date& d) {
return os << d.year << '-' << d.month << '-' << d.day;
}
};
template <> struct fmt::formatter<date> : ostream_formatter {};
std::string s = fmt::format("The date is {}", date{2012, 12, 9});
// s == "The date is 2012-12-9"
Added the fmt::streamed
function that takes an object and formats it
via std::ostream
.
For example (godbolt):
#include <thread>
#include <fmt/ostream.h>
int main() {
fmt::print("Current thread id: {}\n",
fmt::streamed(std::this_thread::get_id()));
}
Note that fmt/std.h
provides a formatter
specialization for
std::thread::id
so you don't need to format it via std::ostream
.
Deprecated implicit conversions of unscoped enums to integers for consistency with scoped enums.
Added an argument-dependent lookup based format_as
extension API to
simplify formatting of enums.
Added experimental std::variant
formatting support
(#2941).
For example (godbolt):
#include <variant>
#include <fmt/std.h>
int main() {
auto v = std::variant<int, std::string>(42);
fmt::print("{}\n", v);
}
prints:
variant(42)
Thanks @jehelset.
Added experimental std::filesystem::path
formatting support
(#2865,
#2902,
#2917,
#2918).
For example (godbolt):
#include <filesystem>
#include <fmt/std.h>
int main() {
fmt::print("There is no place like {}.", std::filesystem::path("/home"));
}
prints:
There is no place like "/home".
Thanks @phprus (Vladislav Shchapov).
Added a std::thread::id
formatter to fmt/std.h
.
For example (godbolt):
#include <thread>
#include <fmt/std.h>
int main() {
fmt::print("Current thread id: {}\n", std::this_thread::get_id());
}
Added fmt::styled
that applies a text style to an individual argument
(#2793).
For example (godbolt):
#include <fmt/chrono.h>
#include <fmt/color.h>
int main() {
auto now = std::chrono::system_clock::now();
fmt::print(
"[{}] {}: {}\n",
fmt::styled(now, fmt::emphasis::bold),
fmt::styled("error", fg(fmt::color::red)),
"something went wrong");
}
prints
Thanks @rbrugo (Riccardo Brugo).
Made fmt::print
overload for text styles correctly handle UTF-8
(#2681,
#2701).
Thanks @AlexGuteniev (Alex Guteniev).
Fixed Unicode handling when writing to an ostream.
Added support for nested specifiers to range formatting (#2673). For example (godbolt):
#include <vector>
#include <fmt/ranges.h>
int main() {
fmt::print("{::#x}\n", std::vector{10, 20, 30});
}
prints [0xa, 0x14, 0x1e]
.
Thanks @BRevzin (Barry Revzin).
Implemented escaping of wide strings in ranges (#2904). Thanks @phprus (Vladislav Shchapov).
Added support for ranges with begin
/ end
found via the
argument-dependent lookup
(#2807).
Thanks @rbrugo (Riccardo Brugo).
Fixed formatting of certain kinds of ranges of ranges (#2787). Thanks @BRevzin (Barry Revzin).
Fixed handling of maps with element types other than std::pair
(#2944).
Thanks @BrukerJWD (Jonathan W).
Made tuple formatter enabled only if elements are formattable (#2939, #2940). Thanks @jehelset.
Made fmt::join
compatible with format string compilation
(#2719,
#2720).
Thanks @phprus (Vladislav Shchapov).
Made compile-time checks work with named arguments of custom types and
std::ostream
print
overloads
(#2816,
#2817,
#2819).
Thanks @timsong-cpp.
Removed make_args_checked
because it is no longer needed for compile-time
checks (#2760).
Thanks @phprus (Vladislav Shchapov).
Removed the following deprecated APIs: _format
, arg_join
,
the format_to
overload that takes a memory buffer,
[v]fprintf
that takes an ostream
.
Removed the deprecated implicit conversion of [const] signed char*
and
[const] unsigned char*
to C strings.
Removed the deprecated fmt/locale.h
.
Replaced the deprecated fileno()
with descriptor()
in
buffered_file
.
Moved to_string_view
to the detail
namespace since it's an
implementation detail.
Made access mode of a created file consistent with fopen
by setting
S_IWGRP
and S_IWOTH
(#2733).
Thanks @arogge (Andreas Rogge).
Removed a redundant buffer resize when formatting to std::ostream
(#2842,
#2843).
Thanks @jcelerier (Jean-Michaël Celerier).
Made precision computation for strings consistent with width (#2888).
Fixed handling of locale separators in floating point formatting (#2830).
Made sign specifiers work with __int128_t
(#2773).
Improved support for systems such as CHERI with extra data stored in pointers (#2932). Thanks @davidchisnall (David Chisnall).
Improved documentation (#2706, #2712, #2789, #2803, #2805, #2815, #2924). Thanks @BRevzin (Barry Revzin), @Pokechu22, @setoye (Alta), @rtobar, @rbrugo (Riccardo Brugo), @anoonD (cre), @leha-bot (Alex).
Improved build configuration (#2766, #2772, #2836, #2852, #2907, #2913, #2914). Thanks @kambala-decapitator (Andrey Filipenkov), @mattiasljungstrom (Mattias Ljungström), @kieselnb (Nick Kiesel), @nathannaveen, @Vertexwahn.
Fixed various warnings and compilation issues (#2408, #2507, #2697, #2715, #2717, #2722, #2724, #2725, #2726, #2728, #2732, #2738, #2742, #2744, #2745, #2746, #2754, #2755, #2757, #2758, #2761, #2762, #2763, #2765, #2769, #2770, #2771, #2777, #2779, #2782, #2783, #2794, #2796, #2797, #2801, #2802, #2808, #2818, #2819, #2829, #2835, #2848, #2860, #2861, #2882, #2886, #2891, #2892, #2895, #2896, #2903, #2906, #2908, #2909, #2920, #2922, #2927, #2929, #2936, #2937, #2938, #2951, #2954, #2957, #2958, #2960). Thanks @matrackif @Tobi823 (Tobias Hellmann), @ivan-volnov (Ivan Volnov), @VasiliPupkin256, @federico-busato (Federico), @barcharcraz (Charlie Barto), @jk-jeon (Junekey Jeon), @HazardyKnusperkeks (Björn Schäpers), @dalboris (Boris Dalstein), @seanm (Sean McBride), @gsjaardema (Greg Sjaardema), @timsong-cpp, @seanm (Sean McBride), @frithrah, @chronoxor (Ivan Shynkarenka), @Agga, @madmaxoft (Mattes D), @JurajX (Juraj), @phprus (Vladislav Shchapov), @Dani-Hub (Daniel Krügler).
Optimized chrono formatting (#2500, #2537, #2541, #2544, #2550, #2551, #2576, #2577, #2586, #2591, #2594, #2602, #2617, #2628, #2633, #2670, #2671).
Processing of some specifiers such as %z
and %Y
is now up to 10-20
times faster, for example on GCC 11 with libstdc++:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Benchmark Before After ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- FMTFormatter_z 261 ns 26.3 ns FMTFormatterCompile_z 246 ns 11.6 ns FMTFormatter_Y 263 ns 26.1 ns FMTFormatterCompile_Y 244 ns 10.5 ns ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Thanks @phprus (Vladislav Shchapov) and @toughengineer (Pavel Novikov).
Implemented subsecond formatting for chrono durations (#2623). For example (godbolt):
#include <fmt/chrono.h>
int main() {
fmt::print("{:%S}", std::chrono::milliseconds(1234));
}
prints "01.234".
Thanks @matrackif.
Fixed handling of precision 0 when formatting chrono durations (#2587, #2588). Thanks @lukester1975.
Fixed an overflow on invalid inputs in the tm
formatter
(#2564).
Thanks @phprus (Vladislav Shchapov).
Added fmt::group_digits
that formats integers with a non-localized digit
separator (comma) for groups of three digits.
For example (godbolt):
#include <fmt/format.h>
int main() {
fmt::print("{} dollars", fmt::group_digits(1000000));
}
prints "1,000,000 dollars".
Added support for faint, conceal, reverse and blink text styles (#2394):
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/576385/147710227-c68f5317-f8fa-42c3-9123-7c4ba3c398cb.mp4
Thanks @benit8 (Benoît Lormeau) and @data-man (Dmitry Atamanov).
Added experimental support for compile-time floating point formatting (#2426, #2470). It is currently limited to the header-only mode. Thanks @alexezeder (Alexey Ochapov).
Added UDL-based named argument support to compile-time format string checks (#2640, #2649). For example (godbolt):
#include <fmt/format.h>
int main() {
using namespace fmt::literals;
fmt::print("{answer:s}", "answer"_a=42);
}
gives a compile-time error on compilers with C++20 consteval
and non-type
template parameter support (gcc 10+) because s
is not a valid format
specifier for an integer.
Thanks @alexezeder (Alexey Ochapov).
Implemented escaping of string range elements. For example (godbolt):
#include <fmt/ranges.h>
#include <vector>
int main() {
fmt::print("{}", std::vector<std::string>{"\naan"});
}
is now printed as:
["\naan"]
instead of:
[" aan"]
Added an experimental ?
specifier for escaping strings.
(#2674).
Thanks @BRevzin (Barry Revzin).
Switched to JSON-like representation of maps and sets for consistency with
Python's str.format
.
For example (godbolt):
#include <fmt/ranges.h>
#include <map>
int main() {
fmt::print("{}", std::map<std::string, int>{{"answer", 42}});
}
is now printed as:
{"answer": 42}
Extended fmt::join
to support C++20-only ranges
(#2549).
Thanks @BRevzin (Barry Revzin).
Optimized handling of non-const-iterable ranges and implemented initial support for non-const-formattable types.
Disabled implicit conversions of scoped enums to integers that was accidentally introduced in earlier versions (#1841).
Deprecated implicit conversion of [const] signed char*
and
[const] unsigned char*
to C strings.
Deprecated _format
, a legacy UDL-based format API
(#2646).
Thanks @alexezeder (Alexey Ochapov).
Marked format
, formatted_size
and to_string
as [[nodiscard]]
(#2612).
@0x8000-0000 (Florin Iucha).
Added missing diagnostic when trying to format function and member pointers as well as objects convertible to pointers which is explicitly disallowed (#2598, #2609, #2610). Thanks @AlexGuteniev (Alex Guteniev).
Optimized writing to a contiguous buffer with format_to_n
(#2489).
Thanks @Roman-Koshelev.
Optimized writing to non-char
buffers
(#2477).
Thanks @Roman-Koshelev.
Decimal point is now localized when using the L
specifier.
Improved floating point formatter implementation (#2498, #2499). Thanks @Roman-Koshelev.
Fixed handling of very large precision in fixed format (#2616).
Made a table of cached powers used in FP formatting static (#2509). Thanks @jk-jeon (Junekey Jeon).
Resolved a lookup ambiguity with C++20 format-related functions due to ADL (#2639, #2641). Thanks @mkurdej (Marek Kurdej).
Removed unnecessary inline namespace qualification (#2642, #2643). Thanks @mkurdej (Marek Kurdej).
Implemented argument forwarding in format_to_n
(#2462,
#2463).
Thanks @owent (WenTao Ou).
Fixed handling of implicit conversions in fmt::to_string
and format string
compilation (#2565).
Changed the default access mode of files created by fmt::output_file
to
-rw-r--r--
for consistency with fopen
(#2530).
Make fmt::ostream::flush
public
(#2435).
Improved C++14/17 attribute detection (#2615). Thanks @AlexGuteniev (Alex Guteniev).
Improved consteval
detection for MSVC
(#2559).
Thanks @DanielaE (Daniela Engert).
Improved documentation (#2406, #2446, #2493, #2513, #2515, #2522, #2562, #2575, #2606, #2620, #2676). Thanks @sobolevn (Nikita Sobolev), @UnePierre (Max FERGER), @zhsj, @phprus (Vladislav Shchapov), @ericcurtin (Eric Curtin), @Lounarok.
Improved fuzzers and added a fuzzer for chrono timepoint formatting (#2461, #2469). @pauldreik (Paul Dreik),
Added the FMT_SYSTEM_HEADERS
CMake option setting which marks {fmt}'s
headers as system. It can be used to suppress warnings
(#2644,
#2651).
Thanks @alexezeder (Alexey Ochapov).
Added the Bazel build system support (#2505, #2516). Thanks @Vertexwahn.
Improved build configuration and tests (#2437, #2558, #2648, #2650, #2663, #2677). Thanks @DanielaE (Daniela Engert), @alexezeder (Alexey Ochapov), @phprus (Vladislav Shchapov).
Fixed various warnings and compilation issues (#2353, #2356, #2399, #2408, #2414, #2427, #2432, #2442, #2434, #2439, #2447, #2450, #2455, #2465, #2472, #2474, #2476, #2478, #2479, #2481, #2482, #2483, #2490, #2491, #2510, #2518, #2528, #2529, #2539, #2540, #2545, #2555, #2557, #2570, #2573, #2582, #2605, #2611, #2647, #2627, #2630, #2635, #2638, #2653, #2654, #2661, #2664, #2684). Thanks @DanielaE (Daniela Engert), @mwinterb, @cdacamar (Cameron DaCamara), @TrebledJ (Johnathan), @bodomartin (brm), @cquammen (Cory Quammen), @white238 (Chris White), @mmarkeloff (Max), @palacaze (Pierre-Antoine Lacaze), @jcelerier (Jean-Michaël Celerier), @mborn-adi (Mathias Born), @BrukerJWD (Jonathan W), @spyridon97 (Spiros Tsalikis), @phprus (Vladislav Shchapov), @oliverlee (Oliver Lee), @joshessman-llnl (Josh Essman), @akohlmey (Axel Kohlmeyer), @timkalu, @olupton (Olli Lupton), @Acretock, @alexezeder (Alexey Ochapov), @andrewcorrigan (Andrew Corrigan), @lucpelletier, @HazardyKnusperkeks (Björn Schäpers).
std::string
(#2402).Enabled compile-time format string checks by default. For example (godbolt):
#include <fmt/core.h>
int main() {
fmt::print("{:d}", "I am not a number");
}
gives a compile-time error on compilers with C++20 consteval
support
(gcc 10+, clang 11+) because d
is not a valid format specifier for a
string.
To pass a runtime string wrap it in fmt::runtime
:
fmt::print(fmt::runtime("{:d}"), "I am not a number");
Added compile-time formatting (#2019, #2044, #2056, #2072, #2075, #2078, #2129, #2326). For example (godbolt):
#include <fmt/compile.h>
consteval auto compile_time_itoa(int value) -> std::array<char, 10> {
auto result = std::array<char, 10>();
fmt::format_to(result.data(), FMT_COMPILE("{}"), value);
return result;
}
constexpr auto answer = compile_time_itoa(42);
Most of the formatting functionality is available at compile time with a notable exception of floating-point numbers and pointers. Thanks @alexezeder (Alexey Ochapov).
Optimized handling of format specifiers during format string compilation.
For example, hexadecimal formatting ("{:x}"
) is now 3-7x faster than
before when using format_to
with format string compilation and a
stack-allocated buffer (#1944).
Before (7.1.3):
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Benchmark Time CPU Iterations ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- FMTCompileOld/0 15.5 ns 15.5 ns 43302898 FMTCompileOld/42 16.6 ns 16.6 ns 43278267 FMTCompileOld/273123 18.7 ns 18.6 ns 37035861 FMTCompileOld/9223372036854775807 19.4 ns 19.4 ns 35243000 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
After (8.x):
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Benchmark Time CPU Iterations ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- FMTCompileNew/0 1.99 ns 1.99 ns 360523686 FMTCompileNew/42 2.33 ns 2.33 ns 279865664 FMTCompileNew/273123 3.72 ns 3.71 ns 190230315 FMTCompileNew/9223372036854775807 5.28 ns 5.26 ns 130711631 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
It is even faster than std::to_chars
from libc++ compiled with clang on
macOS:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Benchmark Time CPU Iterations ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ToChars/0 4.42 ns 4.41 ns 160196630 ToChars/42 5.00 ns 4.98 ns 140735201 ToChars/273123 7.26 ns 7.24 ns 95784130 ToChars/9223372036854775807 8.77 ns 8.75 ns 75872534 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
In other cases, especially involving std::string
construction, the
speed up is usually lower because handling format specifiers takes a smaller
fraction of the total time.
Added the _cf
user-defined literal to represent a compiled format string.
It can be used instead of the FMT_COMPILE
macro
(#2043,
#2242):
#include <fmt/compile.h>
using namespace fmt::literals;
auto s = fmt::format(FMT_COMPILE("{}"), 42); // 🙁 not modern
auto s = fmt::format("{}"_cf, 42); // 🙂 modern as hell
It requires compiler support for class types in non-type template parameters (a C++20 feature) which is available in GCC 9.3+. Thanks @alexezeder (Alexey Ochapov).
Format string compilation now requires format
functions of formatter
specializations for user-defined types to be const
:
template <> struct fmt::formatter<my_type>: formatter<string_view> {
template <typename FormatContext>
auto format(my_type obj, FormatContext& ctx) const { // Note const here.
// ...
}
};
Added UDL-based named argument support to format string compilation (#2243, #2281). For example:
#include <fmt/compile.h>
using namespace fmt::literals;
auto s = fmt::format(FMT_COMPILE("{answer}"), "answer"_a = 42);
Here the argument named "answer" is resolved at compile time with no runtime overhead. Thanks @alexezeder (Alexey Ochapov).
Added format string compilation support to fmt::print
(#2280,
#2304).
Thanks @alexezeder (Alexey Ochapov).
Added initial support for compiling {fmt} as a C++20 module (#2235, #2240, #2260, #2282, #2283, #2288, #2298, #2306, #2307, #2309, #2318, #2324, #2332, #2340). Thanks @DanielaE (Daniela Engert).
Made symbols private by default reducing shared library size (#2301). For example there was a ~15% reported reduction on one platform. Thanks @sergiud (Sergiu Deitsch).
Optimized includes making the result of preprocessing fmt/format.h
~20% smaller with libstdc++/C++20 and slightly improving build times
(#1998).
Added support of ranges with non-const begin
/ end
(#1953).
Thanks @kitegi (sarah).
Added support of std::byte
and other formattable types to fmt::join
(#1981,
#2040,
#2050,
#2262). For example:
#include <fmt/format.h>
#include <cstddef>
#include <vector>
int main() {
auto bytes = std::vector{std::byte(4), std::byte(2)};
fmt::print("{}", fmt::join(bytes, ""));
}
prints "42".
Thanks @kamibo (Camille Bordignon).
Implemented the default format for std::chrono::system_clock
(#2319,
#2345). For example:
#include <fmt/chrono.h>
int main() {
fmt::print("{}", std::chrono::system_clock::now());
}
prints "2021-06-18 15:22:00" (the output depends on the current date and time). Thanks @sunmy2019.
Made more chrono specifiers locale independent by default. Use the 'L'
specifier to get localized formatting. For example:
#include <fmt/chrono.h>
int main() {
std::locale::global(std::locale("ru_RU.UTF-8"));
auto monday = std::chrono::weekday(1);
fmt::print("{}\n", monday); // prints "Mon"
fmt::print("{:L}\n", monday); // prints "пн"
}
Improved locale handling in chrono formatting (#2337, #2349, #2350). Thanks @phprus (Vladislav Shchapov).
Deprecated fmt/locale.h
moving the formatting functions that take a
locale to fmt/format.h
(char
) and fmt/xchar
(other overloads).
This doesn't introduce a dependency on <locale>
so there is virtually no
compile time effect.
Deprecated an undocumented format_to
overload that takes
basic_memory_buffer
.
Made parameter order in vformat_to
consistent with format_to
(#2327).
Added support for time points with arbitrary durations (#2208). For example:
#include <fmt/chrono.h>
int main() {
using tp = std::chrono::time_point<
std::chrono::system_clock, std::chrono::seconds>;
fmt::print("{:%S}", tp(std::chrono::seconds(42)));
}
prints "42".
Formatting floating-point numbers no longer produces trailing zeros by default
for consistency with std::format
. For example:
#include <fmt/core.h>
int main() {
fmt::print("{0:.3}", 1.1);
}
prints "1.1". Use the '#'
specifier to keep trailing zeros.
Dropped a limit on the number of elements in a range and replaced {}
with
[]
as range delimiters for consistency with Python's str.format
.
The 'L'
specifier for locale-specific numeric formatting can now be
combined with presentation specifiers as in std::format
. For example:
#include <fmt/core.h>
#include <locale>
int main() {
std::locale::global(std::locale("fr_FR.UTF-8"));
fmt::print("{0:.2Lf}", 0.42);
}
prints "0,42". The deprecated 'n'
specifier has been removed.
Made the 0
specifier ignored for infinity and NaN
(#2305,
#2310).
Thanks @Liedtke (Matthias Liedtke).
Made the hexfloat formatting use the right alignment by default (#2308, #2317). Thanks @Liedtke (Matthias Liedtke).
Removed the deprecated numeric alignment ('='
). Use the '0'
specifier
instead.
Removed the deprecated fmt/posix.h
header that has been replaced with
fmt/os.h
.
Removed the deprecated format_to_n_context
, format_to_n_args
and
make_format_to_n_args
. They have been replaced with format_context
,
format_args` and ``make_format_args
respectively.
Moved wchar_t
-specific functions and types to fmt/xchar.h
.
You can define FMT_DEPRECATED_INCLUDE_XCHAR
to automatically include
fmt/xchar.h
from fmt/format.h
but this will be disabled in the next
major release.
Fixed handling of the '+'
specifier in localized formatting
(#2133).
Added support for the 's'
format specifier that gives textual
representation of bool
(#2094,
#2109). For example:
#include <fmt/core.h>
int main() {
fmt::print("{:s}", true);
}
prints "true". Thanks @powercoderlol (Ivan Polyakov).
Made fmt::ptr
work with function pointers
(#2131). For example:
#include <fmt/format.h>
int main() {
fmt::print("My main: {}\n", fmt::ptr(main));
}
Thanks @mikecrowe (Mike Crowe).
The undocumented support for specializing formatter
for pointer types
has been removed.
Fixed fmt::formatted_size
with format string compilation
(#2141,
#2161).
Thanks @alexezeder (Alexey Ochapov).
Fixed handling of empty format strings during format string compilation (#2042):
auto s = fmt::format(FMT_COMPILE(""));
Thanks @alexezeder (Alexey Ochapov).
Fixed handling of enums in fmt::to_string
(#2036).
Improved width computation (#2033, #2091). For example:
#include <fmt/core.h>
int main() {
fmt::print("{:-<10}{}\n", "你好", "世界");
fmt::print("{:-<10}{}\n", "hello", "world");
}
prints
on a modern terminal.
The experimental fast output stream (fmt::ostream
) is now truncated by
default for consistency with fopen
(#2018). For example:
#include <fmt/os.h>
int main() {
fmt::ostream out1 = fmt::output_file("guide");
out1.print("Zaphod");
out1.close();
fmt::ostream out2 = fmt::output_file("guide");
out2.print("Ford");
}
writes "Ford" to the file "guide". To preserve the old file content if any
pass fmt::file::WRONLY | fmt::file::CREATE
flags to fmt::output_file
.
Fixed moving of fmt::ostream
that holds buffered data
(#2197,
#2198).
Thanks @vtta.
Replaced the fmt::system_error
exception with a function of the same
name that constructs std::system_error
(#2266).
Replaced the fmt::windows_error
exception with a function of the same
name that constructs std::system_error
with the category returned by
fmt::system_category()
(#2274,
#2275).
The latter is similar to std::sytem_category
but correctly handles UTF-8.
Thanks @phprus (Vladislav Shchapov).
Replaced fmt::error_code
with std::error_code
and made it formattable
(#2269,
#2270,
#2273).
Thanks @phprus (Vladislav Shchapov).
Added speech synthesis support (#2206).
Made format_to
work with a memory buffer that has a custom allocator
(#2300).
Thanks @voxmea.
Added Allocator::max_size
support to basic_memory_buffer
.
(#1960).
Thanks @phprus (Vladislav Shchapov).
Added wide string support to fmt::join
(#2236).
Thanks @crbrz.
Made iterators passed to formatter
specializations via a format context
satisfy C++20 std::output_iterator
requirements
(#2156,
#2158,
#2195,
#2204).
Thanks @randomnetcat (Jason Cobb).
Optimized the printf
implementation
(#1982,
#1984,
#2016,
#2164).
Thanks @rimathia and
@moiwi.
Improved detection of constexpr
char_traits
(#2246,
#2257).
Thanks @phprus (Vladislav Shchapov).
Fixed writing to stdout
when it is redirected to NUL
on Windows
(#2080).
Fixed exception propagation from iterators (#2097).
Improved strftime
error handling
(#2238,
#2244).
Thanks @yumeyao.
Stopped using deprecated GCC UDL template extension.
Added fmt/args.h
to the install target
(#2096).
Error messages are now passed to assert when exceptions are disabled (#2145). Thanks @NobodyXu (Jiahao XU).
Added the FMT_MASTER_PROJECT
CMake option to control build and install
targets when {fmt} is included via add_subdirectory
(#2098,
#2100).
Thanks @randomizedthinking.
Improved build configuration (#2026, #2122). Thanks @luncliff (Park DongHa) and @ibaned (Dan Ibanez).
Fixed various warnings and compilation issues (#1947, #1959, #1963, #1965, #1966, #1974, #1975, #1990, #2000, #2001, #2002, #2004, #2006, #2009, #2010, #2038, #2039, #2047, #2053, #2059, #2065, #2067, #2068, #2073, #2103, #2105, #2106, #2107, #2116, #2117, #2118, #2119, #2127, #2128, #2140, #2142, #2143, #2144, #2147, #2148, #2149, #2152, #2160, #2170, #2175, #2176, #2177, #2178, #2179, #2180, #2181, #2183, #2184, #2185, #2186, #2187, #2190, #2192, #2194, #2205, #2210, #2211, #2215, #2216, #2218, #2220, #2228, #2229, #2230, #2233, #2239, #2248, #2252, #2253, #2255, #2261, #2278, #2284, #2287, #2289, #2290, #2293, #2295, #2296, #2297, #2311, #2313, #2315, #2320, #2321, #2323, #2328, #2329, #2333, #2338, #2341). Thanks @darklukee, @fagg (Ashton Fagg), @killerbot242 (Lieven de Cock), @jgopel (Jonathan Gopel), @yeswalrus (Walter Gray), @Finkman, @HazardyKnusperkeks (Björn Schäpers), @dkavolis (Daumantas Kavolis), @concatime (Issam Maghni), @chronoxor (Ivan Shynkarenka), @summivox (Yin Zhong), @yNeo, @Apache-HB (Elliot), @alexezeder (Alexey Ochapov), @toojays (John Steele Scott), @Brainy0207, @vadz (VZ), @imsherlock (Ryan Sherlock), @phprus (Vladislav Shchapov), @white238 (Chris White), @yafshar (Yaser Afshar), @BillyDonahue (Billy Donahue), @jstaahl, @denchat, @DanielaE (Daniela Engert), @ilyakurdyukov (Ilya Kurdyukov), @ilmai, @JessyDL (Jessy De Lannoit), @sergiud (Sergiu Deitsch), @mwinterb, @sven-herrmann, @jmelas (John Melas), @twoixter (Jose Miguel Pérez), @crbrz, @upsj (Tobias Ribizel).
Improved documentation (#1986, #2051, #2057, #2081, #2084, #2312). Thanks @imba-tjd (谭九鼎), @0x416c69 (AlιAѕѕaѕѕιN), @mordante.
Continuous integration and test improvements (#1969, #1991, #2020, #2110, #2114, #2196, #2217, #2247, #2256, #2336, #2346). Thanks @jgopel (Jonathan Gopel), @alexezeder (Alexey Ochapov) and @DanielaE (Daniela Engert).
format_to_n
(#1996,
#2029).FMT_ARM_ABI_COMPATIBILITY
macro to work around ABI
incompatibility between GCC and Clang on ARM
(#1919).__builtin_clz
or equivalent
(#1968).
Thanks @tohammer (Tobias Hammer).Switched from Grisu3
to Dragonbox for the default
floating-point formatting which gives the shortest decimal representation
with round-trip guarantee and correct rounding
(#1882,
#1887,
#1894). This makes {fmt} up to
20-30x faster than common implementations of std::ostringstream
and
sprintf
on dtoa-benchmark
and faster than double-conversion and Ryū:
It is possible to get even better performance at the cost of larger binary
size by compiling with the FMT_USE_FULL_CACHE_DRAGONBOX
macro set to 1.
Thanks @jk-jeon (Junekey Jeon).
Added an experimental unsynchronized file output API which, together with format string compilation, can give 5-9 times speed up compared to fprintf on common platforms (godbolt):
#include <fmt/os.h>
int main() {
auto f = fmt::output_file("guide");
f.print("The answer is {}.", 42);
}
Added a formatter for std::chrono::time_point<system_clock>
(#1819,
#1837). For example
(godbolt):
#include <fmt/chrono.h>
int main() {
auto now = std::chrono::system_clock::now();
fmt::print("The time is {:%H:%M:%S}.\n", now);
}
Thanks @adamburgess (Adam Burgess).
Added support for ranges with non-const begin
/end
to fmt::join
(#1784,
#1786). For example
(godbolt):
#include <fmt/ranges.h>
#include <range/v3/view/filter.hpp>
int main() {
using std::literals::string_literals::operator""s;
auto strs = std::array{"a"s, "bb"s, "ccc"s};
auto range = strs | ranges::views::filter(
[] (const std::string &x) { return x.size() != 2; }
);
fmt::print("{}\n", fmt::join(range, ""));
}
prints "accc".
Thanks @tonyelewis (Tony E Lewis).
Added a memory_buffer::append
overload that takes a range
(#1806).
Thanks @BRevzin (Barry Revzin).
Improved handling of single code units in FMT_COMPILE
. For example:
#include <fmt/compile.h>
char* f(char* buf) {
return fmt::format_to(buf, FMT_COMPILE("x{}"), 42);
}
compiles to just (godbolt):
_Z1fPc:
movb $120, (%rdi)
xorl %edx, %edx
cmpl $42, _ZN3fmt2v76detail10basic_dataIvE23zero_or_powers_of_10_32E+8(%rip)
movl $3, %eax
seta %dl
subl %edx, %eax
movzwl _ZN3fmt2v76detail10basic_dataIvE6digitsE+84(%rip), %edx
cltq
addq %rdi, %rax
movw %dx, -2(%rax)
ret
Here a single mov
instruction writes 'x'
($120
) to the output
buffer.
Added dynamic width support to format string compilation (#1809).
Improved error reporting for unformattable types: now you'll get the type name directly in the error message instead of the note:
#include <fmt/core.h>
struct how_about_no {};
int main() {
fmt::print("{}", how_about_no());
}
Error (godbolt):
fmt/core.h:1438:3: error: static_assert failed due to requirement
'fmt::v7::formattable<how_about_no>()' "Cannot format an argument.
To make type T formattable provide a formatter<T> specialization:
https://fmt.dev/latest/api.html#udt"
...
Added the make_args_checked function template that allows you to write formatting functions with compile-time format string checks and avoid binary code bloat (godbolt):
void vlog(const char* file, int line, fmt::string_view format,
fmt::format_args args) {
fmt::print("{}: {}: ", file, line);
fmt::vprint(format, args);
}
template <typename S, typename... Args>
void log(const char* file, int line, const S& format, Args&&... args) {
vlog(file, line, format,
fmt::make_args_checked<Args...>(format, args...));
}
#define MY_LOG(format, ...) \
log(__FILE__, __LINE__, FMT_STRING(format), __VA_ARGS__)
MY_LOG("invalid squishiness: {}", 42);
Replaced snprintf
fallback with a faster internal IEEE 754 float
and
double
formatter for arbitrary precision. For example
(godbolt):
#include <fmt/core.h>
int main() {
fmt::print("{:.500}\n", 4.9406564584124654E-324);
}
prints
4.9406564584124654417656879286822137236505980261432476442558568250067550727020875186529983636163599237979656469544571773092665671035593979639877479601078187812630071319031140452784581716784898210368871863605699873072305000638740915356498438731247339727316961514003171538539807412623856559117102665855668676818703956031062493194527159149245532930545654440112748012970999954193198940908041656332452475714786901472678015935523861155013480352649347201937902681071074917033322268447533357208324319360923829e-324
.
Made format_to_n
and formatted_size
part of the core API
(godbolt):
#include <fmt/core.h>
int main() {
char buffer[10];
auto result = fmt::format_to_n(buffer, sizeof(buffer), "{}", 42);
}
Added fmt::format_to_n
overload with format string compilation
(#1764,
#1767,
#1869). For example
(godbolt):
#include <fmt/compile.h>
int main() {
char buffer[8];
fmt::format_to_n(buffer, sizeof(buffer), FMT_COMPILE("{}"), 42);
}
Thanks @Kurkin (Dmitry Kurkin), @alexezeder (Alexey Ochapov).
Added fmt::format_to
overload that take text_style
(#1593,
#1842,
#1843). For example
(godbolt):
#include <fmt/color.h>
int main() {
std::string out;
fmt::format_to(std::back_inserter(out),
fmt::emphasis::bold | fg(fmt::color::red),
"The answer is {}.", 42);
}
Thanks @Naios (Denis Blank).
Made the '#'
specifier emit trailing zeros in addition to the decimal
point (#1797). For example
(godbolt):
#include <fmt/core.h>
int main() {
fmt::print("{:#.2g}", 0.5);
}
prints 0.50
.
Changed the default floating point format to not include .0
for
consistency with std::format
and std::to_chars
(#1893,
#1943). It is possible to get
the decimal point and trailing zero with the #
specifier.
Fixed an issue with floating-point formatting that could result in addition of
a non-significant trailing zero in rare cases e.g. 1.00e-34
instead of
1.0e-34
(#1873,
#1917).
Made fmt::to_string
fallback on ostream
insertion operator if
the formatter
specialization is not provided
(#1815,
#1829).
Thanks @alexezeder (Alexey Ochapov).
Added support for the append mode to the experimental file API and
improved fcntl.h
detection.
(#1847,
#1848).
Thanks @t-wiser.
Fixed handling of types that have both an implicit conversion operator and
an overloaded ostream
insertion operator
(#1766).
Fixed a slicing issue in an internal iterator type (#1822). Thanks @BRevzin (Barry Revzin).
Fixed an issue in locale-specific integer formatting (#1927).
Improved FMT_ALWAYS_INLINE
(#1878).
Thanks @jk-jeon (Junekey Jeon).
Removed dependency on windows.h
(#1900).
Thanks @bernd5 (Bernd Baumanns).
Optimized counting of decimal digits on MSVC (#1890). Thanks @mwinterb.
Improved documentation (#1772, #1775, #1792, #1838, #1888, #1918, #1939). Thanks @leolchat (Léonard Gérard), @pepsiman (Malcolm Parsons), @Klaim (Joël Lamotte), @ravijanjam (Ravi J), @francesco-st, @udnaan (Adnan).
Added the FMT_REDUCE_INT_INSTANTIATIONS
CMake option that reduces the
binary code size at the cost of some integer formatting performance. This can
be useful for extremely memory-constrained embedded systems
(#1778,
#1781).
Thanks @kammce (Khalil Estell).
Added the FMT_USE_INLINE_NAMESPACES
macro to control usage of inline
namespaces (#1945).
Thanks @darklukee.
Improved build configuration (#1760, #1770, #1779, #1783, #1823). Thanks @dvetutnev (Dmitriy Vetutnev), @xvitaly (Vitaly Zaitsev), @tambry (Raul Tambre), @medithe, @martinwuehrer (Martin Wührer).
Fixed various warnings and compilation issues (#1790, #1802, #1808, #1810, #1811, #1812, #1814, #1816, #1817, #1818, #1825, #1836, #1855, #1856, #1860, #1877, #1879, #1880, #1896, #1897, #1898, #1904, #1908, #1911, #1912, #1928, #1929, #1935, #1937, #1942, #1949). Thanks @TheQwertiest, @medithe, @martinwuehrer (Martin Wührer), @n16h7hunt3r, @Othereum (Seokjin Lee), @gsjaardema (Greg Sjaardema), @AlexanderLanin (Alexander Lanin), @gcerretani (Giovanni Cerretani), @chronoxor (Ivan Shynkarenka), @noizefloor (Jan Schwers), @akohlmey (Axel Kohlmeyer), @jk-jeon (Junekey Jeon), @rimathia, @rglarix (Riccardo Ghetta (larix)), @moiwi, @heckad (Kazantcev Andrey), @MarcDirven. @BartSiwek (Bart Siwek), @darklukee.
numeric_limits
for 128-bit integers
(#1787).numeric_limits
for 128-bit integers
(#1725).Reduced the library size. For example, on macOS a stripped test binary statically linked with {fmt} shrank from ~368k to less than 100k.
Added a simpler and more efficient format string compilation API:
#include <fmt/compile.h>
// Converts 42 into std::string using the most efficient method and no
// runtime format string processing.
std::string s = fmt::format(FMT_COMPILE("{}"), 42);
The old fmt::compile
API is now deprecated.
Optimized integer formatting: format_to
with format string compilation
and a stack-allocated buffer is now faster than to_chars on both
libc++ and libstdc++.
Optimized handling of small format strings. For example,
fmt::format("Result: {}: ({},{},{},{})", str1, str2, str3, str4, str5)
is now ~40% faster (#1685).
Applied extern templates to improve compile times when using the core API
and fmt/format.h
(#1452).
For example, on macOS with clang the compile time of a test translation unit
dropped from 2.3s to 0.3s with -O2
and from 0.6s to 0.3s with the default
settings (-O0
).
Before (-O2
):
% time c++ -c test.cc -I include -std=c++17 -O2 c++ -c test.cc -I include -std=c++17 -O2 2.22s user 0.08s system 99% cpu 2.311 total
After (-O2
):
% time c++ -c test.cc -I include -std=c++17 -O2 c++ -c test.cc -I include -std=c++17 -O2 0.26s user 0.04s system 98% cpu 0.303 total
Before (default):
% time c++ -c test.cc -I include -std=c++17 c++ -c test.cc -I include -std=c++17 0.53s user 0.06s system 98% cpu 0.601 total
After (default):
% time c++ -c test.cc -I include -std=c++17 c++ -c test.cc -I include -std=c++17 0.24s user 0.06s system 98% cpu 0.301 total
It is still recommended to use fmt/core.h
instead of fmt/format.h
but
the compile time difference is now smaller. Thanks
@alex3d for the suggestion.
Named arguments are now stored on stack (no dynamic memory allocations) and the compiled code is more compact and efficient. For example
#include <fmt/core.h>
int main() {
fmt::print("The answer is {answer}\n", fmt::arg("answer", 42));
}
compiles to just (godbolt)
.LC0:
.string "answer"
.LC1:
.string "The answer is {answer}\n"
main:
sub rsp, 56
mov edi, OFFSET FLAT:.LC1
mov esi, 23
movabs rdx, 4611686018427387905
lea rax, [rsp+32]
lea rcx, [rsp+16]
mov QWORD PTR [rsp+8], 1
mov QWORD PTR [rsp], rax
mov DWORD PTR [rsp+16], 42
mov QWORD PTR [rsp+32], OFFSET FLAT:.LC0
mov DWORD PTR [rsp+40], 0
call fmt::v6::vprint(fmt::v6::basic_string_view<char>,
fmt::v6::format_args)
xor eax, eax
add rsp, 56
ret
.L.str.1:
.asciz "answer"
Implemented compile-time checks for dynamic width and precision (#1614):
#include <fmt/format.h>
int main() {
fmt::print(FMT_STRING("{0:{1}}"), 42);
}
now gives a compilation error because argument 1 doesn't exist:
In file included from test.cc:1: include/fmt/format.h:2726:27: error: constexpr variable 'invalid_format' must be initialized by a constant expression FMT_CONSTEXPR_DECL bool invalid_format = ^ ... include/fmt/core.h:569:26: note: in call to '&checker(s, {}).context_->on_error(&"argument not found"[0])' if (id >= num_args_) on_error("argument not found"); ^
Added sentinel support to fmt::join
(#1689)
struct zstring_sentinel {};
bool operator==(const char* p, zstring_sentinel) { return *p == '\0'; }
bool operator!=(const char* p, zstring_sentinel) { return *p != '\0'; }
struct zstring {
const char* p;
const char* begin() const { return p; }
zstring_sentinel end() const { return {}; }
};
auto s = fmt::format("{}", fmt::join(zstring{"hello"}, "_"));
// s == "h_e_l_l_o"
Thanks @BRevzin (Barry Revzin).
Added support for named arguments, clear
and reserve
to
dynamic_format_arg_store
(#1655,
#1663,
#1674,
#1677).
Thanks @vsolontsov-ll (Vladimir Solontsov).
Added support for the 'c'
format specifier to integral types for
compatibility with std::format
(#1652).
Replaced the 'n'
format specifier with 'L'
for compatibility with
std::format
(#1624).
The 'n'
specifier can be enabled via the FMT_DEPRECATED_N_SPECIFIER
macro.
The '='
format specifier is now disabled by default for compatibility with
std::format
. It can be enabled via the FMT_DEPRECATED_NUMERIC_ALIGN
macro.
Removed the following deprecated APIs:
FMT_STRING_ALIAS
and fmt
macros - replaced by FMT_STRING
fmt::basic_string_view::char_type
- replaced by
fmt::basic_string_view::value_type
convert_to_int
format_arg_store::types
*parse_context
- replaced by *format_parse_context
FMT_DEPRECATED_INCLUDE_OS
FMT_DEPRECATED_PERCENT
- incompatible with std::format
*writer
- replaced by compiled format APIRenamed the internal
namespace to detail
(#1538). The former is still
provided as an alias if the FMT_USE_INTERNAL
macro is defined.
Improved compatibility between fmt::printf
with the standard specs
(#1595,
#1682,
#1683,
#1687,
#1699).
Thanks @rimathia.
Fixed handling of operator<<
overloads that use copyfmt
(#1666).
Added the FMT_OS
CMake option to control inclusion of OS-specific APIs
in the fmt target. This can be useful for embedded platforms
(#1654,
#1656).
Thanks @kwesolowski (Krzysztof Wesolowski).
Replaced FUZZING_BUILD_MODE_UNSAFE_FOR_PRODUCTION
with the FMT_FUZZ
macro to prevent interferring with fuzzing of projects using {fmt}
(#1650).
Thanks @asraa (Asra Ali).
Fixed compatibility with emscripten (#1636, #1637). Thanks @ArthurSonzogni (Arthur Sonzogni).
Improved documentation (#704, #1643, #1660, #1681, #1691, #1706, #1714, #1721, #1739, #1740, #1741, #1751). Thanks @senior7515 (Alexander Gallego), @lsr0 (Lindsay Roberts), @puetzk (Kevin Puetz), @fpelliccioni (Fernando Pelliccioni), Alexey Kuzmenko, @jelly (jelle van der Waa), @claremacrae (Clare Macrae), @jiapengwen (文佳鹏), @gsjaardema (Greg Sjaardema), @alexey-milovidov.
Implemented various build configuration fixes and improvements (#1603, #1657, #1702, #1728). Thanks @scramsby (Scott Ramsby), @jtojnar (Jan Tojnar), @orivej (Orivej Desh), @flagarde.
Fixed various warnings and compilation issues (#1616, #1620, #1622, #1625, #1627, #1628, #1629, #1631, #1633, #1649, #1658, #1661, #1667, #1668, #1669, #1692, #1696, #1697, #1707, #1712, #1716, #1722, #1724, #1729, #1738, #1742, #1743, #1744, #1747, #1750). Thanks @gsjaardema (Greg Sjaardema), @gabime (Gabi Melman), @johnor (Johan), @Kurkin (Dmitry Kurkin), @invexed (James Beach), @peterbell10, @daixtrose (Markus Werle), @petrutlucian94 (Lucian Petrut), @Neargye (Daniil Goncharov), @ambitslix (Attila M. Szilagyi), @gabime (Gabi Melman), @erthink (Leonid Yuriev), @tohammer (Tobias Hammer), @0x8000-0000 (Florin Iucha).
sprintf
(#1631).string_view
and
ostream operator<<
inconsistently
(#1662).Improved error reporting when trying to format an object of a non-formattable type:
fmt::format("{}", S());
now gives:
include/fmt/core.h:1015:5: error: static_assert failed due to requirement 'formattable' "Cannot format argument. To make type T formattable provide a formatter<T> specialization: https://fmt.dev/latest/api.html#formatting-user-defined-types" static_assert( ^ ... note: in instantiation of function template specialization 'fmt::v6::format<char [3], S, char>' requested here fmt::format("{}", S()); ^
if S
is not formattable.
Reduced the library size by ~10%.
Always print decimal point if #
is specified
(#1476,
#1498):
fmt::print("{:#.0f}", 42.0);
now prints 42.
Implemented the 'L'
specifier for locale-specific numeric formatting to
improve compatibility with std::format
. The 'n'
specifier is now
deprecated and will be removed in the next major release.
Moved OS-specific APIs such as windows_error
from fmt/format.h
to
fmt/os.h
. You can define FMT_DEPRECATED_INCLUDE_OS
to automatically
include fmt/os.h
from fmt/format.h
for compatibility but this will be
disabled in the next major release.
Added precision overflow detection in floating-point formatting.
Implemented detection of invalid use of fmt::arg
.
Used type_identity
to block unnecessary template argument deduction.
Thanks Tim Song.
Improved UTF-8 handling (#1109):
fmt::print("┌{0:─^{2}}┐\n"
"│{1: ^{2}}│\n"
"└{0:─^{2}}┘\n", "", "Привет, мир!", 20);
now prints:
┌────────────────────┐ │ Привет, мир! │ └────────────────────┘
on systems that support Unicode.
Added experimental dynamic argument storage (#1170, #1584):
fmt::dynamic_format_arg_store<fmt::format_context> store;
store.push_back("answer");
store.push_back(42);
fmt::vprint("The {} is {}.\n", store);
prints:
The answer is 42.
Made fmt::join
accept initializer_list
(#1591).
Thanks @Rapotkinnik (Nikolay Rapotkin).
Fixed handling of empty tuples (#1588).
Fixed handling of output iterators in format_to_n
(#1506).
Fixed formatting of std::chrono::duration
types to wide output
(#1533).
Thanks @zeffy (pilao).
Added const begin
and end
overload to buffers
(#1553).
Thanks @dominicpoeschko.
Added the ability to disable floating-point formatting via FMT_USE_FLOAT
,
FMT_USE_DOUBLE
and FMT_USE_LONG_DOUBLE
macros for extremely
memory-constrained embedded system
(#1590).
Thanks @albaguirre (Alberto Aguirre).
Made FMT_STRING
work with constexpr
string_view
(#1589).
Thanks @scramsby (Scott Ramsby).
Implemented a minor optimization in the format string parser (#1560). Thanks @IkarusDeveloper.
Improved attribute detection (#1469, #1475, #1576). Thanks @federico-busato (Federico), @chronoxor (Ivan Shynkarenka), @refnum.
Improved documentation (#1481, #1523). Thanks @JackBoosY (Jack·Boos·Yu), @imba-tjd (谭九鼎).
Fixed symbol visibility on Linux when compiling with -fvisibility=hidden
(#1535).
Thanks @milianw (Milian Wolff).
Implemented various build configuration fixes and improvements (#1264, #1460, #1534, #1536, #1545, #1546, #1566, #1582, #1597, #1598). Thanks @ambitslix (Attila M. Szilagyi), @jwillikers (Jordan Williams), @stac47 (Laurent Stacul).
Fixed various warnings and compilation issues (#1433, #1461, #1470, #1480, #1485, #1492, #1493, #1504, #1505, #1512, #1515, #1516, #1518, #1519, #1520, #1521, #1522, #1524, #1530, #1531, #1532, #1539, #1547, #1548, #1554, #1567, #1568, #1569, #1571, #1573, #1575, #1581, #1583, #1586, #1587, #1594, #1596, #1604, #1606, #1607, #1609). Thanks @marti4d (Chris Martin), @iPherian, @parkertomatoes, @gsjaardema (Greg Sjaardema), @chronoxor (Ivan Shynkarenka), @DanielaE (Daniela Engert), @torsten48, @tohammer (Tobias Hammer), @lefticus (Jason Turner), @ryusakki (Haise), @adnsv (Alex Denisov), @fghzxm, @refnum, @pramodk (Pramod Kumbhar), @Spirrwell, @scramsby (Scott Ramsby).
libfmt.so.6.0.0
(#1471).std::string_view
(#1451).
Thanks @denizevrenci (Deniz Evrenci).FMT_CUDA_TEST
CMake option.format_arg_store::TYPES
.{fmt} now formats IEEE 754 float
and double
using the shortest decimal
representation with correct rounding by default:
#include <cmath>
#include <fmt/core.h>
int main() {
fmt::print("{}", M_PI);
}
prints 3.141592653589793
.
Made the fast binary to decimal floating-point formatter the default,
simplified it and improved performance. {fmt} is now 15 times faster than
libc++'s std::ostringstream
, 11 times faster than printf
and 10%
faster than double-conversion on dtoa-benchmark:
Function |
Time (ns) |
Speedup |
---|---|---|
ostringstream |
1,346.30 |
1.00x |
ostrstream |
1,195.74 |
1.13x |
sprintf |
995.08 |
1.35x |
doubleconv |
99.10 |
13.59x |
fmt |
88.34 |
15.24x |
{fmt} no longer converts float
arguments to double
. In particular this
improves the default (shortest) representation of floats and makes
fmt::format
consistent with std::format
specs
(#1336,
#1353,
#1360,
#1361):
fmt::print("{}", 0.1f);
prints 0.1
instead of 0.10000000149011612
.
Thanks @orivej (Orivej Desh).
Made floating-point formatting output consistent with printf
/iostreams
(#1376,
#1417).
Added support for 128-bit integers (#1287):
fmt::print("{}", std::numeric_limits<__int128_t>::max());
prints 170141183460469231731687303715884105727
.
Thanks @denizevrenci (Deniz Evrenci).
The overload of print
that takes text_style
is now atomic, i.e. the
output from different threads doesn't interleave
(#1351).
Thanks @tankiJong (Tanki Zhang).
Made compile time in the header-only mode ~20% faster by reducing the number
of template instantiations. wchar_t
overload of vprint
was moved from
fmt/core.h
to fmt/format.h
.
Added an overload of fmt::join
that works with tuples
(#1322,
#1330):
#include <tuple>
#include <fmt/ranges.h>
int main() {
std::tuple<char, int, float> t{'a', 1, 2.0f};
fmt::print("{}", t);
}
prints ('a', 1, 2.0)
.
Thanks @jeremyong (Jeremy Ong).
Changed formatting of octal zero with prefix from "00" to "0":
fmt::print("{:#o}", 0);
prints 0
.
The locale is now passed to ostream insertion (<<
) operators
(#1406):
#include <fmt/locale.h>
#include <fmt/ostream.h>
struct S {
double value;
};
std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& os, S s) {
return os << s.value;
}
int main() {
auto s = fmt::format(std::locale("fr_FR.UTF-8"), "{}", S{0.42});
// s == "0,42"
}
Thanks @dlaugt (Daniel Laügt).
Locale-specific number formatting now uses grouping (#1393 #1394). Thanks @skrdaniel.
Fixed handling of types with deleted implicit rvalue conversion to
const char**
(#1421):
struct mystring {
operator const char*() const&;
operator const char*() &;
operator const char*() const&& = delete;
operator const char*() && = delete;
};
mystring str;
fmt::print("{}", str); // now compiles
Enums are now mapped to correct underlying types instead of int
(#1286).
Thanks @agmt (Egor Seredin).
Enum classes are no longer implicitly converted to int
(#1424).
Added basic_format_parse_context
for consistency with C++20
std::format
and deprecated basic_parse_context
.
Fixed handling of UTF-8 in precision (#1389, #1390). Thanks @tajtiattila (Attila Tajti).
{fmt} can now be installed on Linux, macOS and Windows with Conda using its conda-forge package (#1410):
conda install -c conda-forge fmt
Thanks @tdegeus (Tom de Geus).
Added a CUDA test (#1285, #1317). Thanks @luncliff (Park DongHa) and @risa2000.
Improved documentation (#1276, #1291, #1296, #1315, #1332, #1337, #1395 #1418). Thanks @waywardmonkeys (Bruce Mitchener), @pauldreik (Paul Dreik), @jackoalan (Jack Andersen).
Various code improvements (#1358, #1407). Thanks @orivej (Orivej Desh), @dpacbach (David P. Sicilia),
Fixed compile-time format string checks for user-defined types (#1292).
Worked around a false positive in unsigned-integer-overflow
sanitizer
(#1377).
Fixed various warnings and compilation issues (#1273, #1278, #1280, #1281, #1288, #1290, #1301, #1305, #1306, #1309, #1312, #1313, #1316, #1319, #1320, #1326, #1328, #1344, #1345, #1347, #1349, #1354, #1362, #1366, #1364, #1370, #1371, #1385, #1388, #1397, #1414, #1416, #1422 #1427, #1431, #1433). Thanks @hhb, @gsjaardema (Greg Sjaardema), @gabime (Gabi Melman), @neheb (Rosen Penev), @vedranmiletic (Vedran Miletić), @dkavolis (Daumantas Kavolis), @mwinterb, @orivej (Orivej Desh), @denizevrenci (Deniz Evrenci) @leonklingele, @chronoxor (Ivan Shynkarenka), @kent-tri, @0x8000-0000 (Florin Iucha), @marti4d (Chris Martin).
Switched to the MIT license with an optional exception that allows distributing binary code without attribution.
Floating-point formatting is now locale-independent by default:
#include <locale>
#include <fmt/core.h>
int main() {
std::locale::global(std::locale("ru_RU.UTF-8"));
fmt::print("value = {}", 4.2);
}
prints "value = 4.2" regardless of the locale.
For locale-specific formatting use the n
specifier:
std::locale::global(std::locale("ru_RU.UTF-8"));
fmt::print("value = {:n}", 4.2);
prints "value = 4,2".
Added an experimental Grisu floating-point formatting algorithm
implementation (disabled by default). To enable it compile with the
FMT_USE_GRISU
macro defined to 1:
#define FMT_USE_GRISU 1
#include <fmt/format.h>
auto s = fmt::format("{}", 4.2); // formats 4.2 using Grisu
With Grisu enabled, {fmt} is 13x faster than std::ostringstream
(libc++)
and 10x faster than sprintf
on dtoa-benchmark (full results):
Separated formatting and parsing contexts for consistency with
C++20 std::format, removing the
undocumented basic_format_context::parse_context()
function.
Added oss-fuzz support (#1199). Thanks @pauldreik (Paul Dreik).
formatter
specializations now always take precedence over operator<<
(#952):
#include <iostream>
#include <fmt/ostream.h>
struct S {};
std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream& os, S) {
return os << 1;
}
template <>
struct fmt::formatter<S> : fmt::formatter<int> {
auto format(S, format_context& ctx) {
return formatter<int>::format(2, ctx);
}
};
int main() {
std::cout << S() << "\n"; // prints 1 using operator<<
fmt::print("{}\n", S()); // prints 2 using formatter
}
Introduced the experimental fmt::compile
function that does format string
compilation (#618,
#1169,
#1171):
#include <fmt/compile.h>
auto f = fmt::compile<int>("{}");
std::string s = fmt::format(f, 42); // can be called multiple times to
// format different values
// s == "42"
It moves the cost of parsing a format string outside of the format function which can be beneficial when identically formatting many objects of the same types. Thanks @stryku (Mateusz Janek).
Added experimental %
format specifier that formats floating-point values
as percentages (#1060,
#1069,
#1071):
auto s = fmt::format("{:.1%}", 0.42); // s == "42.0%"
Thanks @gawain-bolton (Gawain Bolton).
Implemented precision for floating-point durations (#1004, #1012):
auto s = fmt::format("{:.1}", std::chrono::duration<double>(1.234));
// s == 1.2s
Thanks @DanielaE (Daniela Engert).
Implemented chrono
format specifiers %Q
and %q
that give the value
and the unit respectively (#1019):
auto value = fmt::format("{:%Q}", 42s); // value == "42"
auto unit = fmt::format("{:%q}", 42s); // unit == "s"
Thanks @DanielaE (Daniela Engert).
Fixed handling of dynamic width in chrono formatter:
auto s = fmt::format("{0:{1}%H:%M:%S}", std::chrono::seconds(12345), 12);
// ^ width argument index ^ width
// s == "03:25:45 "
Thanks Howard Hinnant.
Removed deprecated fmt/time.h
. Use fmt/chrono.h
instead.
Added fmt::format
and fmt::vformat
overloads that take text_style
(#993,
#994):
#include <fmt/color.h>
std::string message = fmt::format(fmt::emphasis::bold | fg(fmt::color::red),
"The answer is {}.", 42);
Thanks @Naios (Denis Blank).
Removed the deprecated color API (print_colored
). Use the new API, namely
print
overloads that take text_style
instead.
Made std::unique_ptr
and std::shared_ptr
formattable as pointers via
fmt::ptr
(#1121):
std::unique_ptr<int> p = ...;
fmt::print("{}", fmt::ptr(p)); // prints p as a pointer
Thanks @sighingnow (Tao He).
Made print
and vprint
report I/O errors
(#1098,
#1099).
Thanks @BillyDonahue (Billy Donahue).
Marked deprecated APIs with the [[deprecated]]
attribute and removed
internal uses of deprecated APIs
(#1022).
Thanks @eliaskosunen (Elias Kosunen).
Modernized the codebase using more C++11 features and removing workarounds.
Most importantly, buffer_context
is now an alias template, so
use buffer_context<T>
instead of buffer_context<T>::type
.
These features require GCC 4.8 or later.
formatter
specializations now always take precedence over implicit
conversions to int
and the undocumented convert_to_int
trait
is now deprecated.
Moved the undocumented basic_writer
, writer
, and wwriter
types
to the internal
namespace.
Removed deprecated basic_format_context::begin()
. Use out()
instead.
Disallowed passing the result of join
as an lvalue to prevent misuse.
Refactored the undocumented structs that represent parsed format specifiers to simplify the API and allow multibyte fill.
Moved SFINAE to template parameters to reduce symbol sizes.
Switched to fputws
for writing wide strings so that it's no longer
required to call _setmode
on Windows
(#1229,
#1243).
Thanks @jackoalan (Jack Andersen).
Improved literal-based API (#1254). Thanks @sylveon (Charles Milette).
Added support for exotic platforms without uintptr_t
such as IBM i
(AS/400) which has 128-bit pointers and only 64-bit integers
(#1059).
Added Sublime Text syntax highlighting config (#1037). Thanks @Kronuz (Germán Méndez Bravo).
Added the FMT_ENFORCE_COMPILE_STRING
macro to enforce the use of
compile-time format strings
(#1231).
Thanks @jackoalan (Jack Andersen).
Stopped setting CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE
if {fmt} is a subproject
(#1081).
Various build improvements (#1039, #1078, #1091, #1103, #1177). Thanks @luncliff (Park DongHa), @jasonszang (Jason Shuo Zang), @olafhering (Olaf Hering), @Lecetem, @pauldreik (Paul Dreik).
Improved documentation (#1049, #1051, #1083, #1113, #1114, #1146, #1180, #1250, #1252, #1265). Thanks @mikelui (Michael Lui), @foonathan (Jonathan Müller), @BillyDonahue (Billy Donahue), @jwakely (Jonathan Wakely), @kaisbe (Kais Ben Salah), @sdebionne (Samuel Debionne).
Fixed ambiguous formatter specialization in fmt/ranges.h
(#1123).
Fixed formatting of a non-empty std::filesystem::path
which is an
infinitely deep range of its components
(#1268).
Fixed handling of general output iterators when formatting characters (#1056, #1058). Thanks @abolz (Alexander Bolz).
Fixed handling of output iterators in formatter
specialization for
ranges (#1064).
Fixed handling of exotic character types (#1188).
Made chrono formatting work with exceptions disabled (#1062).
Fixed DLL visibility issues (#1134, #1147). Thanks @denchat.
Disabled the use of UDL template extension on GCC 9 (#1148).
Removed misplaced format
compile-time checks from printf
(#1173).
Fixed issues in the experimental floating-point formatter (#1072, #1129, #1153, #1155, #1210, #1222). Thanks @alabuzhev (Alex Alabuzhev).
Fixed bugs discovered by fuzzing or during fuzzing integration (#1124, #1127, #1132, #1135, #1136, #1141, #1142, #1178, #1179, #1194). Thanks @pauldreik (Paul Dreik).
Fixed building tests on FreeBSD and Hurd (#1043). Thanks @jackyf (Eugene V. Lyubimkin).
Fixed various warnings and compilation issues (#998, #1006, #1008, #1011, #1025, #1027, #1028, #1029, #1030, #1031, #1054, #1063, #1068, #1074, #1075, #1079, #1086, #1088, #1089, #1094, #1101, #1102, #1105, #1107, #1115, #1117, #1118, #1120, #1123, #1139, #1140, #1143, #1144, #1150, #1151, #1152, #1154, #1156, #1159, #1175, #1181, #1186, #1187, #1191, #1197, #1200, #1203, #1205, #1206, #1213, #1214, #1217, #1228, #1230, #1232, #1235, #1236, #1240). Thanks @DanielaE (Daniela Engert), @mwinterb, @eliaskosunen (Elias Kosunen), @morinmorin, @ricco19 (Brian Ricciardelli), @waywardmonkeys (Bruce Mitchener), @chronoxor (Ivan Shynkarenka), @remyabel, @pauldreik (Paul Dreik), @gsjaardema (Greg Sjaardema), @rcane (Ronny Krüger), @mocabe, @denchat, @cjdb (Christopher Di Bella), @HazardyKnusperkeks (Björn Schäpers), @vedranmiletic (Vedran Miletić), @jackoalan (Jack Andersen), @DaanDeMeyer (Daan De Meyer), @starkmapper (Mark Stapper).
Introduced experimental chrono formatting support:
#include <fmt/chrono.h>
int main() {
using namespace std::literals::chrono_literals;
fmt::print("Default format: {} {}\n", 42s, 100ms);
fmt::print("strftime-like format: {:%H:%M:%S}\n", 3h + 15min + 30s);
}
prints:
Default format: 42s 100ms strftime-like format: 03:15:30
Added experimental support for emphasis (bold, italic, underline, strikethrough), colored output to a file stream, and improved colored formatting API (#961, #967, #973):
#include <fmt/color.h>
int main() {
print(fg(fmt::color::crimson) | fmt::emphasis::bold,
"Hello, {}!\n", "world");
print(fg(fmt::color::floral_white) | bg(fmt::color::slate_gray) |
fmt::emphasis::underline, "Hello, {}!\n", "мир");
print(fg(fmt::color::steel_blue) | fmt::emphasis::italic,
"Hello, {}!\n", "世界");
}
prints the following on modern terminals with RGB color support:
Thanks @Rakete1111 (Nicolas).
Added support for 4-bit terminal colors (#968, #974)
#include <fmt/color.h>
int main() {
print(fg(fmt::terminal_color::red), "stop\n");
}
Note that these colors vary by terminal:
Thanks @Rakete1111 (Nicolas).
Parameterized formatting functions on the type of the format string
(#880,
#881,
#883,
#885,
#897,
#920).
Any object of type S
that has an overloaded to_string_view(const S&)
returning fmt::string_view
can be used as a format string:
namespace my_ns {
inline string_view to_string_view(const my_string& s) {
return {s.data(), s.length()};
}
}
std::string message = fmt::format(my_string("The answer is {}."), 42);
Thanks @DanielaE (Daniela Engert).
Made std::string_view
work as a format string
(#898):
auto message = fmt::format(std::string_view("The answer is {}."), 42);
Thanks @DanielaE (Daniela Engert).
Added wide string support to compile-time format string checks (#924):
print(fmt(L"{:f}"), 42); // compile-time error: invalid type specifier
Thanks @XZiar.
Made colored print functions work with wide strings (#867):
#include <fmt/color.h>
int main() {
print(fg(fmt::color::red), L"{}\n", 42);
}
Thanks @DanielaE (Daniela Engert).
Introduced experimental Unicode support (#628, #891):
using namespace fmt::literals;
auto s = fmt::format("{:*^5}"_u, "🤡"_u); // s == "**🤡**"_u
Improved locale support:
#include <fmt/locale.h>
struct numpunct : std::numpunct<char> {
protected:
char do_thousands_sep() const override { return '~'; }
};
std::locale loc;
auto s = fmt::format(std::locale(loc, new numpunct()), "{:n}", 1234567);
// s == "1~234~567"
Constrained formatting functions on proper iterator types (#921). Thanks @DanielaE (Daniela Engert).
Added make_printf_args
and make_wprintf_args
functions
(#934).
Thanks @tnovotny.
Deprecated fmt::visit
, parse_context
, and wparse_context
.
Use fmt::visit_format_arg
, format_parse_context
, and
wformat_parse_context
instead.
Removed undocumented basic_fixed_buffer
which has been superseded by the
iterator-based API
(#873,
#902).
Thanks @superfunc (hollywood programmer).
Disallowed repeated leading zeros in an argument ID:
fmt::print("{000}", 42); // error
Reintroduced support for gcc 4.4.
Fixed compilation on platforms with exotic double
(#878).
Improved documentation (#164, #877, #901, #906, #979). Thanks @kookjr (Mathew Cucuzella), @DarkDimius (Dmitry Petrashko), @HecticSerenity.
Added pkgconfig support which makes it easier to consume the library from meson and other build systems (#916). Thanks @colemickens (Cole Mickens).
Various build improvements (#909, #926, #937, #953, #959). Thanks @tchaikov (Kefu Chai), @luncliff (Park DongHa), @AndreasSchoenle (Andreas Schönle), @hotwatermorning, @Zefz (JohanJansen).
Improved string_view
construction performance
(#914).
Thanks @gabime (Gabi Melman).
Fixed non-matching char types (#895). Thanks @DanielaE (Daniela Engert).
Fixed format_to_n
with std::back_insert_iterator
(#913).
Thanks @DanielaE (Daniela Engert).
Fixed locale-dependent formatting (#905).
Fixed various compiler warnings and errors (#882, #886, #933, #941, #931, #943, #954, #956, #962, #965, #977, #983, #989). Thanks @Luthaf (Guillaume Fraux), @stevenhoving (Steven Hoving), @christinaa (Kristina Brooks), @lgritz (Larry Gritz), @DanielaE (Daniela Engert), @0x8000-0000 (Sign Bit), @liuping1997.
visit
lookup issues on gcc 7 & 8
(#870).
Thanks @medithe.fmt/range.h
from specializing fmt::basic_string_view
(#865,
#868).
Thanks @hhggit (dual).format_to
formatting to wmemory_buffer
(#874).Optimized format string parsing and argument processing which resulted in up
to 5x speed up on long format strings and significant performance boost on
various benchmarks. For example, version 5.2 is 2.22x faster than 5.1 on
decimal integer formatting with format_to
(macOS, clang-902.0.39.2):
Method |
Time, s |
Speedup |
---|---|---|
fmt::format 5.1 |
0.58 |
|
fmt::format 5.2 |
0.35 |
1.66x |
fmt::format_to 5.1 |
0.51 |
|
fmt::format_to 5.2 |
0.23 |
2.22x |
sprintf |
0.71 |
|
std::to_string |
1.01 |
|
std::stringstream |
1.73 |
Changed the fmt
macro from opt-out to opt-in to prevent name collisions.
To enable it define the FMT_STRING_ALIAS
macro to 1 before including
fmt/format.h
:
#define FMT_STRING_ALIAS 1
#include <fmt/format.h>
std::string answer = format(fmt("{}"), 42);
Added compile-time format string checks to format_to
overload that takes
fmt::memory_buffer
(#783):
fmt::memory_buffer buf;
// Compile-time error: invalid type specifier.
fmt::format_to(buf, fmt("{:d}"), "foo");
Moved experimental color support to fmt/color.h
and enabled the
new API by default. The old API can be enabled by defining the
FMT_DEPRECATED_COLORS
macro.
Added formatting support for types explicitly convertible to
fmt::string_view
:
struct foo {
explicit operator fmt::string_view() const { return "foo"; }
};
auto s = format("{}", foo());
In particular, this makes formatting function work with
folly::StringPiece
.
Implemented preliminary support for char*_t
by replacing the format
function overloads with a single function template parameterized on the string
type.
Added support for dynamic argument lists (#814, #819). Thanks @MikePopoloski (Michael Popoloski).
Reduced executable size overhead for embedded targets using newlib nano by making locale dependency optional (#839). Thanks @teajay-fr (Thomas Benard).
Keep noexcept
specifier when exceptions are disabled
(#801,
#810).
Thanks @qis (Alexej Harm).
Fixed formatting of user-defined types providing operator<<
with
format_to_n
(#806).
Thanks @mkurdej (Marek Kurdej).
Fixed dynamic linkage of new symbols (#808).
Fixed global initialization issue (#807):
// This works on compilers with constexpr support.
static const std::string answer = fmt::format("{}", 42);
Fixed various compiler warnings and errors (#804, #809, #811, #822, #827, #830, #838, #843, #844, #851, #852, #854). Thanks @henryiii (Henry Schreiner), @medithe, and @eliasdaler (Elias Daler).
Added experimental support for RGB color output enabled with
the FMT_EXTENDED_COLORS
macro:
#define FMT_EXTENDED_COLORS
#define FMT_HEADER_ONLY // or compile fmt with FMT_EXTENDED_COLORS defined
#include <fmt/format.h>
fmt::print(fmt::color::steel_blue, "Some beautiful text");
The old API (the print_colored
and vprint_colored
functions and the
color
enum) is now deprecated.
(#762
#767).
thanks @Remotion (Remo).
Added quotes to strings in ranges and tuples (#766). Thanks @Remotion (Remo).
Made format_to
work with basic_memory_buffer
(#776).
Added vformat_to_n
and wchar_t
overload of format_to_n
(#764,
#769).
Made is_range
and is_tuple_like
part of public (experimental) API
to allow specialization for user-defined types
(#751,
#759).
Thanks @drrlvn (Dror Levin).
Added more compilers to continuous integration and increased FMT_PEDANTIC
warning levels
(#736).
Thanks @eliaskosunen (Elias Kosunen).
Fixed compilation with MSVC 2013.
Fixed handling of user-defined types in format_to
(#793).
Forced linking of inline vformat
functions into the library
(#795).
Fixed incorrect call to on_align in '{:}='
(#750).
Fixed floating-point formatting to a non-back_insert_iterator with sign & numeric alignment specified (#756).
Fixed formatting to an array with format_to_n
(#778).
Fixed formatting of more than 15 named arguments (#754).
Fixed handling of compile-time strings when including fmt/ostream.h
.
(#768).
Fixed various compiler warnings and errors (#742, #748, #752, #770, #775, #779, #780, #790, #792, #800). Thanks @Remotion (Remo), @gabime (Gabi Melman), @foonathan (Jonathan Müller), @Dark-Passenger (Dhruv Paranjape), and @0x8000-0000 (Sign Bit).
Added a requirement for partial C++11 support, most importantly variadic
templates and type traits, and dropped FMT_VARIADIC_*
emulation macros.
Variadic templates are available since GCC 4.4, Clang 2.9 and MSVC 18.0 (2013).
For older compilers use {fmt} version 4.x which continues to be
maintained and works with C++98 compilers.
Renamed symbols to follow standard C++ naming conventions and proposed a subset of the library for standardization in P0645R2 Text Formatting.
Implemented constexpr
parsing of format strings and compile-time format
string checks. For
example
#include <fmt/format.h>
std::string s = format(fmt("{:d}"), "foo");
gives a compile-time error because d
is an invalid specifier for strings
(godbolt):
... <source>:4:19: note: in instantiation of function template specialization 'fmt::v5::format<S, char [4]>' requested here std::string s = format(fmt("{:d}"), "foo"); ^ format.h:1337:13: note: non-constexpr function 'on_error' cannot be used in a constant expression handler.on_error("invalid type specifier");
Compile-time checks require relaxed constexpr
(C++14 feature) support. If
the latter is not available, checks will be performed at runtime.
Separated format string parsing and formatting in the extension API to enable compile-time format string processing. For example
struct Answer {};
namespace fmt {
template <>
struct formatter<Answer> {
constexpr auto parse(parse_context& ctx) {
auto it = ctx.begin();
spec = *it;
if (spec != 'd' && spec != 's')
throw format_error("invalid specifier");
return ++it;
}
template <typename FormatContext>
auto format(Answer, FormatContext& ctx) {
return spec == 's' ?
format_to(ctx.begin(), "{}", "fourty-two") :
format_to(ctx.begin(), "{}", 42);
}
char spec = 0;
};
}
std::string s = format(fmt("{:x}"), Answer());
gives a compile-time error due to invalid format specifier (godbolt):
... <source>:12:45: error: expression '<throw-expression>' is not a constant expression throw format_error("invalid specifier");
Added iterator support:
#include <vector>
#include <fmt/format.h>
std::vector<char> out;
fmt::format_to(std::back_inserter(out), "{}", 42);
Added the format_to_n function that restricts the output to the specified number of characters (#298):
char out[4];
fmt::format_to_n(out, sizeof(out), "{}", 12345);
// out == "1234" (without terminating '\0')
Added the formatted_size function for computing the output size:
#include <fmt/format.h>
auto size = fmt::formatted_size("{}", 12345); // size == 5
Improved compile times by reducing dependencies on standard headers and providing a lightweight core API:
#include <fmt/core.h>
fmt::print("The answer is {}.", 42);
Added the make_format_args function for capturing formatting arguments:
// Prints formatted error message.
void vreport_error(const char *format, fmt::format_args args) {
fmt::print("Error: ");
fmt::vprint(format, args);
}
template <typename... Args>
void report_error(const char *format, const Args & ... args) {
vreport_error(format, fmt::make_format_args(args...));
}
Added the make_printf_args
function for capturing printf
arguments
(#687,
#694).
Thanks @Kronuz (Germán Méndez Bravo).
Added prefix v
to non-variadic functions taking format_args
to
distinguish them from variadic ones:
std::string vformat(string_view format_str, format_args args);
template <typename... Args>
std::string format(string_view format_str, const Args & ... args);
Added experimental support for formatting ranges, containers and tuple-like
types in fmt/ranges.h
(#735):
#include <fmt/ranges.h>
std::vector<int> v = {1, 2, 3};
fmt::print("{}", v); // prints {1, 2, 3}
Thanks @Remotion (Remo).
Implemented wchar_t
date and time formatting
(#712):
#include <fmt/time.h>
std::time_t t = std::time(nullptr);
auto s = fmt::format(L"The date is {:%Y-%m-%d}.", *std::localtime(&t));
Thanks @DanielaE (Daniela Engert).
Provided more wide string overloads (#724). Thanks @DanielaE (Daniela Engert).
Switched from a custom null-terminated string view class to string_view
in the format API and provided fmt::string_view
which implements a subset
of std::string_view
API for pre-C++17 systems.
Added support for std::experimental::string_view
(#607):
#include <fmt/core.h>
#include <experimental/string_view>
fmt::print("{}", std::experimental::string_view("foo"));
Allowed mixing named and automatic arguments:
fmt::format("{} {two}", 1, fmt::arg("two", 2));
Removed the write API in favor of the format API with compile-time handling of format strings.
Disallowed formatting of multibyte strings into a wide character target (#606).
Improved documentation (#515, #614, #617, #661, #680). Thanks @ibell (Ian Bell), @mihaitodor (Mihai Todor), and @johnthagen.
Implemented more efficient handling of large number of format arguments.
Introduced an inline namespace for symbol versioning.
Added debug postfix d
to the fmt
library name
(#636).
Removed unnecessary fmt/
prefix in includes
(#397).
Thanks @chronoxor (Ivan Shynkarenka).
Moved fmt/*.h
to include/fmt/*.h
to prevent irrelevant files and
directories appearing on the include search paths when fmt is used as a
subproject and moved source files to the src
directory.
Added qmake project file support/fmt.pro
(#641).
Thanks @cowo78 (Giuseppe Corbelli).
Added Gradle build file support/build.gradle
(#649).
Thanks @luncliff (Park DongHa).
Removed FMT_CPPFORMAT
CMake option.
Fixed a name conflict with the macro CHAR_WIDTH
in glibc
(#616).
Thanks @aroig (Abdó Roig-Maranges).
Fixed handling of nested braces in fmt::join
(#638).
Added SOURCELINK_SUFFIX
for compatibility with Sphinx 1.5
(#497).
Thanks @ginggs (Graham Inggs).
Added a missing inline
in the header-only mode
(#626).
Thanks @aroig (Abdó Roig-Maranges).
Fixed various compiler warnings (#640, #656, #679, #681, #705, #715, #717, #720, #723, #726, #730, #739). Thanks @peterbell10, @LarsGullik, @foonathan (Jonathan Müller), @eliaskosunen (Elias Kosunen), @christianparpart (Christian Parpart), @DanielaE (Daniela Engert), and @mwinterb.
Worked around an MSVC bug and fixed several warnings (#653). Thanks @alabuzhev (Alex Alabuzhev).
Worked around GCC bug 67371 (#682).
Fixed compilation with -fno-exceptions
(#655).
Thanks @chenxiaolong (Andrew Gunnerson).
Made constexpr remove_prefix
gcc version check tighter
(#648).
Renamed internal type enum constants to prevent collision with poorly written C libraries (#644).
Added detection of wostream operator<<
(#650).
Fixed compilation when there is a mismatch between -std
options between
the library and user code
(#664).
Fixed compilation with GCC 7 and -std=c++11
(#734).
Improved generated binary code on GCC 7 and older (#668).
Fixed handling of numeric alignment with no width (#675).
Fixed handling of empty strings in UTF8/16 converters (#676). Thanks @vgalka-sl (Vasili Galka).
Fixed formatting of an empty string_view
(#689).
Fixed detection of string_view
on libc++
(#686).
Fixed DLL issues (#696). Thanks @sebkoenig.
Fixed compile checks for mixing narrow and wide strings (#690).
Disabled unsafe implicit conversion to std::string
(#729).
Fixed handling of reused format specs (as in fmt::join
) for pointers
(#725).
Thanks @mwinterb.
fmt::to_wstring()
in addition to fmt::to_string()
(#559).
Thanks @alabuzhev (Alex Alabuzhev).std::string_view
(#571 and
#578).
Thanks @thelostt (Mário Feroldi) and
@mwinterb.fmt::format_arg()
(#547).
Thanks @rollbear (Björn Fahller).std::allocator_traits
(#583).
Thanks @mwinterb.const
variadic member function emulation with
FMT_VARIADIC_CONST
(#591).
Thanks @ludekvodicka (Ludek Vodicka).override
and
[[noreturn]]
(#549 and
#555).
Thanks @alabuzhev (Alex Alabuzhev),
@virgiliofornazin (Virgilio Alexandre Fornazin),
@alexanderbock (Alexander Bock),
@yumetodo,
@VaderY (Császár Mátyás),
@jpcima (JP Cimalando),
@thelostt (Mário Feroldi), and
@Manu343726 (Manu Sánchez).GNUInstallDirs
to set installation location
(#610) and fixed warnings
(#536 and
#556).
Thanks @mikecrowe (Mike Crowe),
@evgen231 and
@henryiii (Henry Schreiner).Removed old compatibility headers cppformat/*.h
and CMake options
(#527).
Thanks @maddinat0r (Alex Martin).
Added string.h
containing fmt::to_string()
as alternative to
std::to_string()
as well as other string writer functionality
(#326 and
#441):
#include "fmt/string.h"
std::string answer = fmt::to_string(42);
Thanks to @glebov-andrey (Andrey Glebov).
Moved fmt::printf()
to new printf.h
header and allowed %s
as
generic specifier (#453),
made %.f
more conformant to regular printf()
(#490), added custom writer
support (#476) and implemented
missing custom argument formatting
(#339 and
#340):
#include "fmt/printf.h"
// %s format specifier can be used with any argument type.
fmt::printf("%s", 42);
Thanks @mojoBrendan, @manylegged (Arthur Danskin) and @spacemoose (Glen Stark). See also #360, #335 and #331.
Added container.h
containing a BasicContainerWriter
to write to containers like std::vector
(#450).
Thanks @polyvertex (Jean-Charles Lefebvre).
Added fmt::join()
function that takes a range and formats
its elements separated by a given string
(#466):
#include "fmt/format.h"
std::vector<double> v = {1.2, 3.4, 5.6};
// Prints "(+01.20, +03.40, +05.60)".
fmt::print("({:+06.2f})", fmt::join(v.begin(), v.end(), ", "));
Thanks @olivier80.
Added support for custom formatting specifications to simplify customization of built-in formatting (#444). Thanks @polyvertex (Jean-Charles Lefebvre). See also #439.
Added fmt::format_system_error()
for error code formatting
(#323 and
#526).
Thanks @maddinat0r (Alex Martin).
Added thread-safe fmt::localtime()
and fmt::gmtime()
as replacement for the standard version to time.h
(#396).
Thanks @codicodi.
Internal improvements to NamedArg
and ArgLists
(#389 and
#390).
Thanks @chronoxor.
Fixed crash due to bug in FormatBuf
(#493).
Thanks @effzeh. See also
#480 and
#491.
Fixed handling of wide strings in fmt::StringWriter
.
Improved compiler error messages (#357).
Fixed various warnings and issues with various compilers (#494, #499, #483, #485, #482, #475, #473 and #414). Thanks @chronoxor, @zhaohuaxishi, @pkestene (Pierre Kestener), @dschmidt (Dominik Schmidt) and @0x414c (Alexey Gorishny) .
Improved CMake: targets are now namespaced
(#511 and
#513), supported header-only
printf.h
(#354), fixed issue
with minimal supported library subset
(#418,
#419 and
#420).
Thanks @bjoernthiel (Bjoern Thiel),
@niosHD (Mario Werner),
@LogicalKnight (Sean LK) and
@alabuzhev (Alex Alabuzhev).
Improved documentation. Thanks to @pwm1234 (Phil) for #393.
FMT_VERSION
macro
(#411).FMT_NULL
instead of literal 0
(#409).
Thanks @alabuzhev (Alex Alabuzhev).format_float
(#413).windows.h
if not in header-only mode
(#503).
Thanks @Quentin01 (Quentin Buathier).__builtin_clz
in clang with MS codegen
(#519).unsigned char
strings
(#373).The project has been renamed from C++ Format (cppformat) to fmt for
consistency with the used namespace and macro prefix
(#307).
Library headers are now located in the fmt
directory:
#include "fmt/format.h"
Including format.h
from the cppformat
directory is deprecated
but works via a proxy header which will be removed in the next major version.
The documentation is now available at https://fmt.dev.
Added support for strftime-like date and time formatting (#283):
#include "fmt/time.h"
std::time_t t = std::time(nullptr);
// Prints "The date is 2016-04-29." (with the current date)
fmt::print("The date is {:%Y-%m-%d}.", *std::localtime(&t));
std::ostream
support including formatting of user-defined types that provide
overloaded operator<<
has been moved to fmt/ostream.h
:
#include "fmt/ostream.h"
class Date {
int year_, month_, day_;
public:
Date(int year, int month, int day) : year_(year), month_(month), day_(day) {}
friend std::ostream &operator<<(std::ostream &os, const Date &d) {
return os << d.year_ << '-' << d.month_ << '-' << d.day_;
}
};
std::string s = fmt::format("The date is {}", Date(2012, 12, 9));
// s == "The date is 2012-12-9"
Added support for custom argument formatters (#235).
Added support for locale-specific integer formatting with the n
specifier
(#305):
std::setlocale(LC_ALL, "en_US.utf8");
fmt::print("cppformat: {:n}\n", 1234567); // prints 1,234,567
Sign is now preserved when formatting an integer with an incorrect printf
format specifier (#265):
fmt::printf("%lld", -42); // prints -42
Note that it would be an undefined behavior in std::printf
.
Length modifiers such as ll
are now optional in printf formatting
functions and the correct type is determined automatically
(#255):
fmt::printf("%d", std::numeric_limits<long long>::max());
Note that it would be an undefined behavior in std::printf
.
Added initial support for custom formatters (#231).
Fixed detection of user-defined literal support on Intel C++ compiler (#311, #312). Thanks to @dean0x7d (Dean Moldovan) and @speth (Ray Speth).
Reduced compile time (#243, #249, #317):
Thanks to @dean0x7d (Dean Moldovan).
Compile test fixes (#313). Thanks to @dean0x7d (Dean Moldovan).
Documentation fixes (#239, #248, #252, #258, #260, #301, #309). Thanks to @ReadmeCritic @Gachapen (Magnus Bjerke Vik) and @jwilk (Jakub Wilk).
Fixed compiler and sanitizer warnings (#244, #256, #259, #263, #274, #277, #286, #291, #296, #308) Thanks to @mwinterb, @pweiskircher (Patrik Weiskircher), @Naios.
Improved compatibility with Windows Store apps (#280, #285) Thanks to @mwinterb.
Added tests of compatibility with older C++ standards (#273). Thanks to @niosHD.
Changed ArgMap
to be backed by a vector instead of a map.
(#261,
#262).
Thanks to @mwinterb.
Added fprintf
overload that writes to a std::ostream
(#251).
Thanks to nickhutchinson (Nicholas Hutchinson).
Export symbols when building a Windows DLL (#245). Thanks to macdems (Maciek Dems).
Fixed compilation on Cygwin (#304).
Implemented a workaround for a bug in Apple LLVM version 4.2 of clang (#276).
Implemented a workaround for Google Test bug #705 on gcc 6 (#268). Thanks to octoploid.
Removed Biicode support because the latter has been discontinued.
FMT_CMAKE_DIR
CMake variable
(#299).
Thanks to @niosHD.Project layout and build system improvements (#267):
cppformat
directory.
Including format.h
from the top-level directory is deprecated
but works via a proxy header which will be removed in the next
major version.doc
, install
, and test
are now disabled if C++ Format
is included as a CMake subproject. They can be enabled by setting
FMT_DOC
, FMT_INSTALL
, and FMT_TEST
in the parent project.Thanks to @niosHD.
[Breaking] Named arguments (#169, #173, #174):
fmt::print("The answer is {answer}.", fmt::arg("answer", 42));
Thanks to @jamboree.
[Experimental] User-defined literals for format and named arguments (#204, #206, #207):
using namespace fmt::literals;
fmt::print("The answer is {answer}.", "answer"_a=42);
Thanks to @dean0x7d (Dean Moldovan).
[Breaking] Formatting of more than 16 arguments is now supported when using variadic templates (#141). Thanks to @Shauren.
Runtime width specification (#168):
fmt::format("{0:{1}}", 42, 5); // gives " 42"
Thanks to @jamboree.
[Breaking] Enums are now formatted with an overloaded std::ostream
insertion
operator (operator<<
) if available
(#232).
[Breaking] Changed default bool
format to textual, "true" or "false"
(#170):
fmt::print("{}", true); // prints "true"
To print bool
as a number use numeric format specifier such as d
:
fmt::print("{:d}", true); // prints "1"
fmt::printf
and fmt::sprintf
now support formatting of bool
with the
%s
specifier giving textual output, "true" or "false"
(#223):
fmt::printf("%s", true); // prints "true"
Thanks to @LarsGullik.
[Breaking] signed char
and unsigned char
are now formatted as integers by default
(#217).
[Breaking] Pointers to C strings can now be formatted with the p
specifier
(#223):
fmt::print("{:p}", "test"); // prints pointer value
Thanks to @LarsGullik.
[Breaking] fmt::printf
and fmt::sprintf
now print null pointers as (nil)
and null strings as (null)
for consistency with glibc
(#226).
Thanks to @LarsGullik.
[Breaking] fmt::(s)printf
now supports formatting of objects of user-defined types
that provide an overloaded std::ostream
insertion operator (operator<<
)
(#201):
fmt::printf("The date is %s", Date(2012, 12, 9));
[Breaking] The Buffer
template is now part of the public API and can be used
to implement custom memory buffers
(#140).
Thanks to @polyvertex (Jean-Charles Lefebvre).
[Breaking] Improved compatibility between BasicStringRef
and
std::experimental::basic_string_view
(#100,
#159,
#183):
BasicStringRef::c_str
replaced by BasicStringRef::data
BasicStringRef
is no longer assumed to be null-terminatedReferences to null-terminated strings are now represented by a new class,
BasicCStringRef
.
Dependency on pthreads introduced by Google Test is now optional (#185).
New CMake options FMT_DOC
, FMT_INSTALL
and FMT_TEST
to control
generation of doc
, install
and test
targets respectively, on by default
(#197,
#198,
#200).
Thanks to @maddinat0r (Alex Martin).
noexcept
is now used when compiling with MSVC2015
(#215).
Thanks to @dmkrepo (Dmitriy).
Added an option to disable use of windows.h
when FMT_USE_WINDOWS_H
is defined as 0 before including format.h
(#171).
Thanks to @alfps (Alf P. Steinbach).
[Breaking] windows.h
is now included with NOMINMAX
unless
FMT_WIN_MINMAX
is defined. This is done to prevent breaking code using
std::min
and std::max
and only affects the header-only configuration
(#152,
#153,
#154).
Thanks to @DevO2012.
Improved support for custom character types (#171). Thanks to @alfps (Alf P. Steinbach).
Added an option to disable use of IOStreams when FMT_USE_IOSTREAMS
is defined as 0 before including format.h
(#205,
#208).
Thanks to @JodiTheTigger.
Improved detection of isnan
, isinf
and signbit
.
fmt::Writer
on integer formatting
and fixed a minor regression. Now it is ~7% faster than karma::generate
on Karma's benchmark
(#186).[Breaking] Headers are now installed in
${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/include/cppformat
(#178).
Thanks to @jackyf (Eugene V. Lyubimkin).
[Breaking] Changed the library name from format
to cppformat
for consistency with the project name and to avoid potential conflicts
(#178).
Thanks to @jackyf (Eugene V. Lyubimkin).
C++ Format is now available in Debian GNU/Linux (stretch, sid) and derived distributions such as Ubuntu 15.10 and later (#155):
$ sudo apt-get install libcppformat1-dev
Thanks to @jackyf (Eugene V. Lyubimkin).
Packages for Fedora and RHEL are now available. Thanks to Dave Johansen.
C++ Format can now be installed via Homebrew on OS X (#157):
$ brew install cppformat
Thanks to @ortho, Anatoliy Bulukin.
Fixed initializer_list
detection
(#136).
Thanks to @Gachapen (Magnus Bjerke Vik).
[Breaking] Fixed formatting of enums with numeric format specifiers in
fmt::(s)printf
(#131,
#139):
enum { ANSWER = 42 };
fmt::printf("%d", ANSWER);
Thanks to @Naios.
Improved compatibility with old versions of MinGW (#129, #130, #132). Thanks to @cstamford (Christopher Stamford).
Fixed a compile error on MSVC with disabled exceptions (#144).
Added a workaround for broken implementation of variadic templates in MSVC2012 (#148).
Placed the anonymous namespace within fmt
namespace for the header-only
configuration
(#171).
Thanks to @alfps (Alf P. Steinbach).
Implemented a workaround for a name lookup bug in MSVC2010 (#188).
Fixed compiler warnings (#95, #96, #114, #135, #142, #145, #146, #158, #163, #175, #190, #191, #194, #196, #216, #218, #220, #229, #233, #234, #236, #281, #289). Thanks to @seanmiddleditch (Sean Middleditch), @dixlorenz (Dix Lorenz), @CarterLi (李通洲), @Naios, @fmatthew5876 (Matthew Fioravante), @LevskiWeng (Levski Weng), @rpopescu, @gabime (Gabi Melman), @cubicool (Jeremy Moles), @jkflying (Julian Kent), @LogicalKnight (Sean L), @inguin (Ingo van Lil) and @Jopie64 (Johan).
Fixed portability issues (mostly causing test failures) on ARM, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x and SunOS 5.11 i386 (#138, #179, #180, #202, #225, Red Hat Bugzilla Bug 1260297). Thanks to @Naios, @jackyf (Eugene V. Lyubimkin) and Dave Johansen.
Fixed a name conflict with macro free
defined in
crtdbg.h
when _CRTDBG_MAP_ALLOC
is set
(#211).
Fixed shared library build on OS X (#212). Thanks to @dean0x7d (Dean Moldovan).
Fixed an overload conflict on MSVC when /Zc:wchar_t-
option is specified
(#214).
Thanks to @slavanap (Vyacheslav Napadovsky).
Improved compatibility with MSVC 2008 (#236). Thanks to @Jopie64 (Johan).
Improved compatibility with bcc32 (#227).
Fixed static_assert
detection on Clang
(#228).
Thanks to @dean0x7d (Dean Moldovan).
Added BasicArrayWriter
, a class template that provides operations for
formatting and writing data into a fixed-size array
(#105 and
#122):
char buffer[100];
fmt::ArrayWriter w(buffer);
w.write("The answer is {}", 42);
Added 0 A.D. and PenUltima Online (POL) to the list of notable projects using C++ Format.
C++ Format now uses MSVC intrinsics for better formatting performance (#115, #116, #118 and #121). Previously these optimizations where only used on GCC and Clang. Thanks to @CarterLi and @objectx.
CMake install target (#119). Thanks to @TrentHouliston.
You can now install C++ Format with make install
command.
Improved Biicode support (#98 and #104). Thanks to @MariadeAnton and @franramirez688.
Improved support for building with Android NDK (#107). Thanks to @newnon.
The android-ndk-example repository provides and example of using C++ Format with Android NDK:
Improved documentation of SystemError
and WindowsError
(#54).
Various code improvements (#110, #111 #112). Thanks to @CarterLi.
Improved compile-time errors when formatting wide into narrow strings (#117).
Fixed BasicWriter::write
without formatting arguments when C++11 support
is disabled (#109).
Fixed header-only build on OS X with GCC 4.9 (#124).
Fixed packaging issues (#94).
Add support for a header-only configuration when FMT_HEADER_ONLY
is
defined before including format.h
:
#define FMT_HEADER_ONLY
#include "format.h"
Compute string length in the constructor of BasicStringRef
instead of the size
method
(#79).
This eliminates size computation for string literals on reasonable optimizing
compilers.
Fix formatting of types with overloaded operator <<
for std::wostream
(#86):
fmt::format(L"The date is {0}", Date(2012, 12, 9));
Fix linkage of tests on Arch Linux (#89).
Allow precision specifier for non-float arguments (#90):
fmt::print("{:.3}\n", "Carpet"); // prints "Car"
Fix build on Android NDK (#93)
Improvements to documentation build procedure.
Remove FMT_SHARED
CMake variable in favor of standard BUILD_SHARED_LIBS.
Fix error handling in fmt::fprintf
.
Fix a number of warnings.
[Breaking] Improved separation between formatting and buffer management.
Writer
is now a base class that cannot be instantiated directly.
The new MemoryWriter
class implements the default buffer management
with small allocations done on stack. So fmt::Writer
should be replaced
with fmt::MemoryWriter
in variable declarations.
Old code:
fmt::Writer w;
New code:
fmt::MemoryWriter w;
If you pass fmt::Writer
by reference, you can continue to do so:
void f(fmt::Writer &w);
This doesn't affect the formatting API.
Support for custom memory allocators (#69)
Formatting functions now accept signed char and unsigned char strings as arguments (#73):
auto s = format("GLSL version: {}", glGetString(GL_VERSION));
Reduced code bloat. According to the new benchmark results,
cppformat is close to printf
and by the order of magnitude better than
Boost Format in terms of compiled code size.
Improved appearance of the documentation on mobile by using the Sphinx Bootstrap theme:
Old |
New |
Safe printf implementation with a POSIX extension for positional arguments:
fmt::printf("Elapsed time: %.2f seconds", 1.23);
fmt::printf("%1$s, %3$d %2$s", weekday, month, day);
Arguments of char
type can now be formatted as integers
(Issue #55):
fmt::format("0x{0:02X}", 'a');
Deprecated parts of the API removed.
The library is now built and tested on MinGW with Appveyor in addition to existing test platforms Linux/GCC, OS X/Clang, Windows/MSVC.
Improved API
All formatting methods are now implemented as variadic functions instead
of using operator<<
for feeding arbitrary arguments into a temporary
formatter object. This works both with C++11 where variadic templates are
used and with older standards where variadic functions are emulated by
providing lightweight wrapper functions defined with the FMT_VARIADIC
macro. You can use this macro for defining your own portable variadic
functions:
void report_error(const char *format, const fmt::ArgList &args) {
fmt::print("Error: {}");
fmt::print(format, args);
}
FMT_VARIADIC(void, report_error, const char *)
report_error("file not found: {}", path);
Apart from a more natural syntax, this also improves performance as there is no need to construct temporary formatter objects and control arguments' lifetimes. Because the wrapper functions are very lightweight, this doesn't cause code bloat even in pre-C++11 mode.
Simplified common case of formatting an std::string
. Now it requires a
single function call:
std::string s = format("The answer is {}.", 42);
Previously it required 2 function calls:
std::string s = str(Format("The answer is {}.") << 42);
Instead of unsafe c_str
function, fmt::Writer
should be used directly
to bypass creation of std::string
:
fmt::Writer w;
w.write("The answer is {}.", 42);
w.c_str(); // returns a C string
This doesn't do dynamic memory allocation for small strings and is less error
prone as the lifetime of the string is the same as for std::string::c_str
which is well understood (hopefully).
Improved consistency in naming functions that are a part of the public API. Now all public functions are lowercase following the standard library conventions. Previously it was a combination of lowercase and CapitalizedWords. Issue #50.
Old functions are marked as deprecated and will be removed in the next release.
Other Changes
Experimental support for printf format specifications (work in progress):
fmt::printf("The answer is %d.", 42);
std::string s = fmt::sprintf("Look, a %s!", "string");
Support for hexadecimal floating point format specifiers a
and A
:
print("{:a}", -42.0); // Prints -0x1.5p+5
print("{:A}", -42.0); // Prints -0X1.5P+5
CMake option FMT_SHARED
that specifies whether to build format as a
shared library (off by default).
More efficient implementation of variadic formatting functions.
Writer::Format
now has a variadic overload:
Writer out;
out.Format("Look, I'm {}!", "variadic");
For efficiency and consistency with other overloads, variadic overload of
the Format
function now returns Writer
instead of std::string
.
Use the str
function to convert it to std::string
:
std::string s = str(Format("Look, I'm {}!", "variadic"));
Replaced formatter actions with output sinks: NoAction
-> NullSink
,
Write
-> FileSink
, ColorWriter
-> ANSITerminalSink
.
This improves naming consistency and shouldn't affect client code unless
these classes are used directly which should be rarely needed.
Added ThrowSystemError
function that formats a message and throws
SystemError
containing the formatted message and system-specific error
description. For example, the following code
FILE *f = fopen(filename, "r");
if (!f)
ThrowSystemError(errno, "Failed to open file '{}'") << filename;
will throw SystemError
exception with description
"Failed to open file '<filename>': No such file or directory" if file
doesn't exist.
Support for AppVeyor continuous integration platform.
Format
now throws SystemError
in case of I/O errors.
Improve test infrastructure. Print functions are now tested by redirecting the output to a pipe.
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