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From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Problem with printf()
Message-ID: <8660@smoke.ARPA>
Date: 8 Oct 88 01:11:16 GMT
References: <504@imec.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <504@imec.UUCP> croes@imec.UUCP (Kris Croes) writes:
>  printf("%d %f\n",i,i); /*1*/
>Some tests (e.g. printing on several lines) showed that the problem is
>caused by printing the float under the "%d" format. I know that
>normal people don't do such a thing, but that is no reason for printf()
>to mess up the stack. (???)

It wasn't printf that messed up the stack,
it was you -- by not meeting the requirements
for using printf.
The arguments MUST match the corresponding
conversion specifiers in the format string.