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From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Why use (void) func() ?
Message-ID: <3845@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 28 Sep 90 04:09:25 GMT
References: <586@dptechno.UUCP> <3819@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> <3837@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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In article <3837@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>, ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
> What _does_ the standard say about [printf() and ferror() and so on]

Thanks to the many people who explained to me that printf &co do output
"as if" using fputc() so *output* errors are reflected in ferror() as they
would be by fputc(), but that the effect of format errors as such is not
defined.
-- 
Fixed in the next release.