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From: mcewan@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: Re: --- Megamax Printf bug ---
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Date: Sun, 30-Mar-86 13:22:00 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 30 13:22:00 1986
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Nf-From: uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU!mcewan    Mar 30 12:22:00 1986


> Despite Jwahar R. Bammi's rebuttal, the problem described (no printing
> of statements not  ending in '\n' until explicit buffer flush) is a bug.
> It is possible to use fflush(stdout) to get around it, as he describes,
> but that is not how most standard library printf()s require things.

Just because MOST standard library printf's do not buffer output to the
terminal does not mean that that is the only correct way. This is
implementation-dependent, and anyone who wants to write portatble code
should use fflush, even if it is not required by the library they are
using.

			Scott McEwan
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