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From: diamond@csl.sony.co.jp (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: ttyname() - question
Message-ID: <10760@riks.csl.sony.co.jp>
Date: 30 Aug 89 02:44:14 GMT
References: <99@lkbpyr.UUCP>
Reply-To: diamond@riks. (Norman Diamond)
Followup-To: comp.lang.c
Organization: Sony Computer Science Laboratory Inc., Tokyo, Japan
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In article <99@lkbpyr.UUCP> jonas@lkbpyr.UUCP (Jonas Heyman) writes:

->I was wondering why this works:
->#include <stdio.h>
->main()
->{
->	char *term;
->	char *ttyname();
->	term=ttyname();
->	printf("%d",term);
->}
->
->And why this doesnn't:
->#include <stdio.h>
->main()
->{
->	test();
->}
->test()
->{
->	char *term;
->	char *ttyname();
->	term=ttyname();
->	printf("%d",term);
->}

Looks to me like they should both fail.  You CAN print the decimal
value of a pointer (using "%d") but it isn't what you're asking for.
Try "%s" or maybe even "%s\n".

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