`safe' putc (was avoiding stdio)
Andrew Koenig
ark at alice.UUCP
Tue Jan 30 10:40:33 AEST 1990
In article <22169 at mimsy.umd.edu>, chris at mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) writes:
> putc *is* *documented* as not being careful about its second parameter.
> If you do not like this, too bad: Every vendor has a right to use this
> parameter several times in the macro expansion of putc(). Mistake or
> not, we are stuck with it.
Has anyone out there actually written a program that depends
for its correct operation on side effects of the second
argument of putc? I can see it for the first argument,
but the second?
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--Andrew Koenig
ark at europa.att.com
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