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From: geoff@warwick.UUCP (Geoff Rimmer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: lint question
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Date: 17 Jan 89 07:49:33 GMT
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In article <1989Jan16.080743.2424@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:

>    [...]
>printf ...
>is a pain to check -- especially since the type of its returned value
>is not portable among current Unixes.  

I thought that problem was only with sprintf, where on some systems it
returns the string it has just produced, and on others the number of
characters written to the string.  I understood that both printf and
fprintf return int (# chars printed) on every system.

cat > /usr/include/std/flame-inviter.h
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
^D

#include <std/flame-inviter>

Geoff

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	Geoff Rimmer, Computer Science, Warwick University, England.
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