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From: jeff@quark.WV.TEK.COM (Jeff Beadles)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Puts replaced by printf? (Was: Re: Bug in csh (history, "!a%100s"))
Keywords: csh history format-string bug fix
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Date: 11 Jul 89 15:06:35 GMT
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In article <774@sbsvax.UUCP> greim@sbsvax.UUCP (Michael Greim) writes:
>As to "puts() will never be slower than printf()": I recall reading
>somewhere that some people think about implementing puts() using printf().

You ARE kidding, right?  Puts can be something ridiculously simple.
Something like this would work:
(I know that it's not "correct" but the concept is. :-)

puts(string)
char  string
	register char *cp = string;
	while(*cp)
		putchar(*cp++);
	putchar('\n');

Why use printf for something this simple?

Would they do something like:
#define puts(x) printf("%s\n", x);

Ack.

	-Jeff
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Jeff Beadles		Utek Sustaining Engineering, Tektronix Inc.
jeff@quark.WV.TEK.COM