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From: abe@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Vic Abell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: sprintf (again)
Message-ID: <7718@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 11 Jun 91 14:09:24 GMT
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References: <9106120920.AA08552@fkrs1.phc.chalmers.se>
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
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In article <9106120920.AA08552@fkrs1.phc.chalmers.se>
biorn@FKRS1.PHC.CHALMERS.SE (Bjorn Sandell) asks about sprintf's
that return char *.

For you, Bjorn, the unpleasant reality is that current standards call
for sprintf to return an integer, so you are going to have to convert
any code that expects a character pointer return from sprintf.

Versions of sprintf that return a character pointer to the target
buffer are fast becoming obsolete.  This is true of POSIX, and the
versions of System V and BSD from which AIX descends.