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From: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: strins()
Keywords: Lattice C Manx Aztec C strins() sprintf
Message-ID: <384@xdos.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jun 89 15:29:07 GMT
References: <0929.AA0929@caleb> <109394@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <10285@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt)
Organization: Hunter Systems, Mountain View CA (Silicon Valley)
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In article <10285@watcgl.waterloo.edu> gswan@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Geo Swan) writes:
>I have seen lots of code that builds strings, particularly pathnames
>through the use of several calls to strcat.  I have never been able
>to understand why people didn't use sprintf.  Particularly in the
>case of building pathnames.

One perfectly valid reason is that sprintf() is much higher overhead
than simpler routines. It runs slower and takes up a fair amount of space.

I dunno about Manx and Lattice on the Amiga, but on many systems, the
existence of %f/%e/%g in {s,f,}printf means that a lot of unneeded floating
point code overhead will get thrown in.
	Doug
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