This commit fills in the documentation holes for the FormatWriter trait which
were previously accidentally left blank. Additionally, this adds the `write_fmt`
method to the trait to allow usage of the `write!` macro with implementors of
the `FormatWriter` trait. This is not useful for consumers of the standard
library who should generally avoid the `FormatWriter` trait, but it is useful
for consumers of the core library who are not using the standard library.
This is a migration of the std::{f32, f64}::to_str* functionality to the core
library. This removes the growable `Vec` used in favor of a large stack buffer.
The maximum base 10 exponent for f64 is 308, so a stack buffer of 512 bytes
should be sufficient to store all floats.
This commit moves all possible functionality from the standard library's string
formatting utilities into the core library. This is a breaking change, due to a
few tweaks in the semantics of formatting:
1. In order to break the dependency on the std::io module, a new trait,
FormatWriter was introduced in core::fmt. This is the trait which is used
(instead of Writer) to format data into a stream.
2. The new FormatWriter trait has one method, write(), which takes some bytes
and can return an error, but the error contains very little information. The
intent for this trait is for an adaptor writer to be used around the standard
library's Writer trait.
3. The fmt::write{,ln,_unsafe} methods no longer take &mut io::Writer, but
rather &mut FormatWriter. Since this trait is less common, all functions were
removed except fmt::write, and it is not intended to be invoked directly.
The main API-breaking change here is that the fmt::Formatter structure will no
longer expose its `buf` field. All previous code writing directly to `f.buf`
using writer methods or the `write!` macro will now instead use `f` directly.
The Formatter object itself implements the `Writer` trait itself for
convenience, although it does not implement the `FormatWriter` trait. The
fallout of these changes will be in the following commits.
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