Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!daveb
From: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: vsprintf considered dangerous
Message-ID: <2543@geac.UUCP>
Date: 7 Apr 88 14:58:29 GMT
Article-I.D.: geac.2543
Posted: Thu Apr  7 10:58:29 1988
References: <36@lotus.UUCP> <1219@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> <18746@think.UUCP>
Reply-To: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
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In article <18746@think.UUCP> bromley@lysippe.think.com.UUCP (Mark Bromley) writes:
| I have always disliked the sprintf and sscanf interface.  A somewhat different
| interface would allow the standard functions to be used with complete error
| checking in the case of io to/from strings.  

If memory serves, one can do this on Honeywell GCOS machines,
although probably only in "B" and not "C".  And no, I have no idea
why...
--dave
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