sprintf(3s) query

Guy Harris guy at auspex.UUCP
Sat Dec 10 03:52:00 AEST 1988


 >Your lint library (for Suns and IBM ACIS) does not incorrectly declare
 >fprintf() as returning `char *'.  Whether your sprintf() actually
 >returns `char *' (as not-quite-defined in stdio.h) is another question
 >entirely.  Poking around in the SunOS 3.2 sources, I find both versions.
 >Which one gets used I have no idea.

One gets used when you compile in the 4BSD environment (using
"(/usr)/bin/cc"); one gets used when you compile in the S5 environment
(using "/usr/5bin/cc").



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