I wish I could say

	printf("%*.16xs", n, p);

where n is a size_t and p is a void*, and it would output n bytes as hex.


And I want to be able to say

	printf("%*qs", n, p);

and it would output n bytes as a C-style backslash quoted string.


Yes, I can write functions that do all this, but I have to worry about buffers, allocate buffer space, and so forth. Plus its a lot of noise and clutter, for just outputing potentially unprintable strings, often just for logging and debugging.

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