I'm trying to port from SunOS to Linux, having problems with "sprintf"

[Alexandre Oliva]

On May 10, 2001, Florian Weimer <Florian.Weimer@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE> wrote:

> Torbjorn Ohlsson <qtorohl@tn.etx.ericsson.se> writes:
>> I have been told that sprintf(str, fmt,..) returns a pointer to "str" on

> Such a C environment is seriously broken.

I suppose it's just an old standard, not something seriously broken.
Anyway, it's true that SunOS 4 behaved like that, and the only way to
get around the problem is to fix the code (unless you'd rather use a
custom glibc in your porting-to-GNU/Linux efforts :-)

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