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From: kendall@wjh12.UUCP (Sam Kendall)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Why vprintf and not %r?
Message-ID: <435@wjh12.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 25-Mar-84 13:58:40 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 25 13:58:40 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 26-Mar-84 20:51:47 EST
Organization: Delft Consulting Corp., New York
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The new functions in System V.2, vprintf, vfprintf, and vsprintf,
provide the functionality of calling _doprnt directly.  I would
like to know why these three new functions were defined when printf
under V7 already had a solution, albeit undocumented: the %r
conversion code.  %r could have been defined in terms of the
varargs macros, and still have been upward compatible from V7.
*Sigh*.

	Sam Kendall	{allegra,ihnp4,ima,amd70}!wjh12!kendall
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