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

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