lint question
Geoff Rimmer
geoff at warwick.UUCP
Tue Jan 17 17:49:33 AEST 1989
In article <1989Jan16.080743.2424 at utzoo.uucp> henry at 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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