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From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: sprintf(3s) query
Message-ID: <663@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 9 Dec 88 17:52:00 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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 >Your lint library (for Suns and IBM ACIS) does not incorrectly declare
 >fprintf() as returning `char *'.  Whether your sprintf() actually
 >returns `char *' (as not-quite-defined in stdio.h) is another question
 >entirely.  Poking around in the SunOS 3.2 sources, I find both versions.
 >Which one gets used I have no idea.

One gets used when you compile in the 4BSD environment (using
"(/usr)/bin/cc"); one gets used when you compile in the S5 environment
(using "/usr/5bin/cc").