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From: hamilton@uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: Re: Comments on proposed C standard
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Date: Tue, 9-Sep-86 01:16:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  9 01:16:00 1986
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Nf-From: uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU!hamilton    Sep  9 00:16:00 1986


>>      We  suggest  that  "printf"  and  friends  obtain a new
>> specifier "%v", which accepts two arguments:  a  new  format
>> string  and a "va_list" of items to format.  This is similar
>> to the existing "%r" construct on UNIX systems.
>
>*Some* UNIX systems.  It's not in 4.2BSD or System V, and it wasn't
>documented in V7 (I don't remember whether it was there or not).

    i remember having to scavenge the old v6 printf.s when our
switch to v7 broke all my %r's...

	wayne hamilton
	U of Il and US Army Corps of Engineers CERL
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