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From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: Re: Catching signals
Keywords: Patch for Eiffel 2.2B: rescue clause ignored in package
Message-ID: <3463@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 24 Jul 90 06:40:34 GMT
References: <375@eiffel.UUCP>
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
Lines: 17

In article <375@eiffel.UUCP>, jp@eiffel.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Sarkis) writes:
> PATCH:
> static void rout_conv(rout_nm, classnum, routnum)
> char  *rout_nm;
>... sprintf(rout_nm, "%s", " ");
>... sprintf(rout_nm, "%s", "create");
>... sprintf(rout_nm, "%s", "put");
>... sprintf(rout_nm, "%s", "item");
>... sprintf(rout_nm, "%s", Rout_names[classnum][routnum]);
>... sprintf(rout_nm, "(NULL)");

I suppose this is more of a comp.lang.c question than a comp.lang.eiffel
question, but what do the calls to sprintf() here buy you that calls to
strcpy() wouldn't?
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