sprintf return value

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2 total messages Started by Mark Harrison Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:21

#1372

Author: Mark Harrison
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:21

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Will the C++ standard specify the return type of sprintf()?
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Mark Harrison, mharriso@dsccc.com

Re: sprintf return value

#1381

Author: Steve Clamage
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 19:07

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mharriso@digi.lonestar.org (Mark Harrison) writes:

>Will the C++ standard specify the return type of sprintf()?

Yes.  The C++ Standard will incorporate the library portion of the
ANSI/ISO C standard (with some minor modifications):

	int sprintf(char* buf, const char* fmt, ...);

It returns the number of characters stored in buf, like the rest of
the printf family.

Some C libraries have sprintf return buf (a char*), for reasons I
have never understood.  This is neither standard C nor standard C++.
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Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com

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