sprintf (again)

[Vic Abell]

In article <9106120920.AA08552 at fkrs1.phc.chalmers.se>
biorn at FKRS1.PHC.CHALMERS.SE (Bjorn Sandell) asks about sprintf's
that return char *.

For you, Bjorn, the unpleasant reality is that current standards call
for sprintf to return an integer, so you are going to have to convert
any code that expects a character pointer return from sprintf.

Versions of sprintf that return a character pointer to the target
buffer are fast becoming obsolete.  This is true of POSIX, and the
versions of System V and BSD from which AIX descends.