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Date: | Sun, 19 Oct 1997 16:48:11 +0200 (IST) |
From: | Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> |
To: | Peter Palotas <blizzar AT hem1 DOT passagen DOT se> |
cc: | Jonathan Foster <jgf1 AT ukc DOT ac DOT uk>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
Subject: | Re: sprintf() string length? |
In-Reply-To: | <3.0.16.19971016132047.34a756c4@hem1.passagen.se> |
Message-ID: | <Pine.SUN.3.91.971019164742.27221G-100000@is> |
MIME-Version: | 1.0 |
On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Peter Palotas wrote: > Does anyone know if this works, and how compatible it is? > Writing to a NULL pointer doesn't sound too good to me! Writing to "/dev/null" should be portable (to Unix). But it is expensive, so it is a good idea only if you need to do such trick a few times. Doing so in the innermost loop of a program would be a bad idea.
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