Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 19:44:29 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org>, Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/apply apply.c Message-ID: <20010105194429.N85794@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200101051918.f05JINQ02516@earth.backplane.com> References: <jedgar@fxp.org> <200101050206.f0526rB87964@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> <20010105162917.K85794@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <20010105120633.B66833@peitho.fxp.org> <20010105184921.M85794@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <200101051918.f05JINQ02516@earth.backplane.com>
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Matt Dillon wrote: > :I don't agree with that, since the other functions return the number of > :characters printed as well. > > Yes, but not portably. The ANSI standard tried to standardize it but > the reality is that only snprintf()'s return value is portable. If you > try to use the return value from other functions as a count, your code > won't be portable. asprintf() *might* be portable too, but nothing else. Oh hell. In that case I'll probably just make the paragraph about snprintf's return value clearer and not touch anything else. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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