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From: jim@applix.UUCP (Jim Morton)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: 4.3BSD stdio.h - sprintf() definition
Message-ID: <550@applix.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 16-Jul-87 19:07:58 EDT
Article-I.D.: applix.550
Posted: Thu Jul 16 19:07:58 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 08:55:29 EDT
References: <521@quacky.UUCP>
Organization: APPLiX Inc., Westboro MA
Lines: 24
Summary: more sprintf wierdness
Xref: mnetor comp.bugs.4bsd:446 comp.unix.wizards:3273

In article <521@quacky.UUCP>, dce@mips.UUCP (David Elliott) writes:
> The 4.3BSD stdio.h contains the following item, found near the
> bottom of the file:
> 	#ifdef vax
> 	char	*sprintf();		/* too painful to do right */
> 	#endif
> What is this doing here? What is supposed to be in apposition to
> "vax"?

That's funny, in my Usenix 4.3 BSD manuals, which say "VAX Version"
on the title page, sprintf() is shown as an int routine. And in
System V.3 stdio.h, it's declared as an int. (Always was int in Sys V,
but now stdio.h enforces it). 






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