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From: jwf@vaxine.UUCP (Jim Franklin)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: stdio.h, VAX versus SUN
Message-ID: <314@vaxine.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10-Jul-84 18:58:53 EDT
Article-I.D.: vaxine.314
Posted: Tue Jul 10 18:58:53 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 12-Jul-84 00:40:46 EDT
Organization: Automatix Inc., Billerica, MA
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In BSD 4.2, file /usr/include/stdio.h contains the following
declaration for sprintf():

#ifdef vax
char	*sprintf();		/* too painful to do right */
#endif

The same lines are present in /usr/include/stdio.h on our SUN 4.2
systems,  where they make even less sense.  Since "vax" is not #defined
there, sprintf() is never declared to be char *.  This causes
subsequent problems with lint().

Can anyone tell me why the #ifdef vax lines are present on either system
(VAX or SUN)?