Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!sun-barr!texsun!texbell!uhnix1!sugar!peter
From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: strins()
Message-ID: <3930@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 15 Jun 89 11:35:02 GMT
References: <8906150029.AA22430@jade.berkeley.edu>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston
Lines: 22

In article <8906150029.AA22430@jade.berkeley.edu>, C506634@UMCVMB.BITNET ("Eric Edwards") writes:
> Lattice uses a bultin function to get arround this problem in printf.

What problem?

> I quote from the Lattice manual, _Lattice C Compiler_ version 4.0

> "     printf
> *  When it is a constant string with no substitutions, the compiler changes the
>    printf call to a _write call.

What if you have your own version of printf? Say, one that understands more
escape sequences (%e -- error text, %t -- absolute tab, %l -- length byte)?

Can you freely interleave _write with stdio routines?

Does it work if you have freopened stdout?

This sounds like a pretty dubious optimisation.
-- 
Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva      `-_-'
...texbell!sugar!peter, or peter@sugar.hackercorp.com  'U`