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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: vsprintf undefined
Keywords: vsprintf varargs
Message-ID: <10522@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 12 Jul 89 04:32:30 GMT
References: <3171@puff.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <3171@puff.UUCP> kschnitz@puff.UUCP (Soccer Stud) writes:
>The problem is vsprintf is undefined using my C libraries.
>Does anyone have a simple solution?  Please post the answer because
>others have had the same problem.  Thanks in advance.

Well, you could try building the software under the System V environment
on your Gould system, since the v*printf() functions exist there.

Or, you could dig up the sources to the C library and see whether or not
you can readily implement v*printf(); most V7/BSD-derived systems use an
internal function named "_doprnt" to implement all the *printf() family,
and if you're lucky yours may be suitable for implementing v*printf().

Or, you could replace the form() function you posted with something like
the following, which is not "kosher" but nonetheless often works by
accident:

char	*
form( z, a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j )
	char		*z;
	int		a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j;
	{
	static char	result[LINELEN];
  
	(void)sprintf( result, z, a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j );
	return result;
	}