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From: hunt@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM (Neil Hunt)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: goto's and switch statements -- mild proposal
Message-ID: <732@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM>
Date: Fri, 4-Sep-87 12:53:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: spar.732
Posted: Fri Sep  4 12:53:00 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 18:21:50 EDT
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Reply-To: hunt@spar.UUCP (Neil Hunt)
Organization: Schlumberger Palo Alto Research - CASLAB
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In article <8394@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>In article <712@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM> hunt@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM (Neil Hunt) writes
>>	char *sprintf();
>
>Please do not declare sprintf `char *' if you can avoid it.  It will
>soon be `int', if it is not already `int' on your machine.

And what, pray, will be the value returned by such an integer sprintf ?
I suppose it will be the number of characters printed, or something else
equally useless. What about all my code where I do something like:

	f = fopen(sprintf(buf, filename, seq_num++), ...);

This seems like a gratuitous change to me !

Neil/.