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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: goto's and switch statements -- mild proposal
Message-ID: <6409@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 5-Sep-87 04:37:39 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep  5 04:37:39 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 9-Sep-87 02:10:47 EDT
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <732@spar.SPAR.SLB.COM> hunt@spar.UUCP (Neil Hunt) writes:
>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.

Returning exactly the same argument you supplied is more useful than
telling you how much work the function did?

>What about all my code where I do something like:
>	f = fopen(sprintf(buf, filename, seq_num++), ...);

Already non-portable!

>This seems like a gratuitous change to me !

Change to what?  There are probably more int-returning *printf()s
out there than (char *)-returning ones.