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From: fenn@wpi.WPI.EDU (Brian Fennell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Does anyone know why this is crashing??
Message-ID: <1991Jun1.160241.13095@wpi.WPI.EDU>
Date: 1 Jun 91 16:02:41 GMT
References: <6240@mahendo.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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In article <6240@mahendo.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> robert@triton.JPL.NASA.GOV writes:
>I have this bit of code that works perfectly on a SPARC and crashes
>on a VMS (O/S- V5.3-A) system?!
>
>int
>init_files(startup_file,...)
>	char *startup_file;
>{
>char buf[256];
>
>#define EOPEN "Unable to open %s file \"%s\"\n"
>(void) print_msg(PERROR,"init_files()",
>                 sprintf(buf,EOPEN,"startup",startup_file));
>
>    -     ------       -                              Robert Angelino

all sprintf's were not created equal (Thanks to the ANSI non-standard
standard)  try changing:
	sprintf(buf, ...... ) 
to
	(sprintf(buf,.....) , buf)

Brian Fennell == fenn@wpi.wpi.edu