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Article #24839Re: sprintf() bug?
From: Wayne Pollock
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1988 06:33
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1988 06:33
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Funny; I thought for sure it would work. I haven't tested it, but it would
seem to me that the \p is interpreted in some sort of glue routine, well after
the string is constructed. That is, when a string containing "\p" is passed
to some toolbox routine, AT THAT TIME the length of the string is determined,
and substituted for the first byte. If it works this way, then the example
given would indeed work as desired.
I'm not sure how it could work this way, unless LSC reserves some char code
(such as 255) as a marker; of course this would be incompatible with C syntax.
Anybody know for certain, or willing to crash his mac to check this out?
Wayne Pollock (The MAD Scientist) pollock@usfvax2.usf.edu.UUCP
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!ge-dab!codas!usfvax2!pollock From: pollock@usfvax2.UUCP (Wayne Pollock) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: sprintf() bug? Message-ID: <951@usfvax2.UUCP> Date: 6 Feb 88 06:33:32 GMT References: <4VzXREy00WABE7k0FU@andrew.cmu.edu> <5349@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> <943@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> <1131@iscuva.ISCS.COM> Reply-To: pollock@usfvax2.usf.edu.UUCP (Wayne Pollock) Organization: University of South Florida at Tampa Lines: 14 Keywords: C,sprintf,strings Summary: What are the semantics of "\pstring"?