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Date:	Mon, 05 Jan 2004 23:21:43 +0000
From:	Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT gotadsl DOT co DOT uk>
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To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Use of FILE in sprintf/sscanf
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Hello.

Esa A E Peuha wrote:
> The sprintf and sscanf funcion families use FILE objects to point to
> strings.  However, there is no reason why these functions should know
> what is inside FILE; the act of "opening" a string as file can be
> abstracted as follows:
[snip]
> Index: src/libc/ansi/stdio/sprintf.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/djgpp/djgpp/src/libc/ansi/stdio/sprintf.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.4
> diff -c -r1.4 sprintf.c
> *** src/libc/ansi/stdio/sprintf.c	8 Jun 2002 10:14:23 -0000	1.4
> --- src/libc/ansi/stdio/sprintf.c	5 Jan 2004 11:34:05 -0000
> ***************
> *** 13,26 ****
>     FILE _strbuf;
>     int len;
> 
> !   _strbuf._flag = _IOWRT|_IOSTRG|_IONTERM;
> !   _strbuf._ptr = str;
> !   _strbuf._cnt = INT_MAX;
> !
>     va_start(args, fmt);
>     len = _doprnt(fmt, args, &_strbuf);
>     va_end(args);
> !
> !   *_strbuf._ptr = 0;
>     return len;
>   }
> --- 13,22 ----
>     FILE _strbuf;
>     int len;
> 
> !   __sopenw(&_strbuf, str, INT_MAX);
>     va_start(args, fmt);
>     len = _doprnt(fmt, args, &_strbuf);
>     va_end(args);
> !   str[len] = '\0';

What happens if _doprnt returns a negative number?

>     return len;
>   }
[snip]

Other than that, it looks fine to me. I'd prefer a slightly less cryptic 
name than "sopen", though - "stropen", "strbufopen"?

Bye, Rich =]

-- 
Richard Dawe [ http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~phekda/richdawe/ ]

"You can't evaluate a man by logic alone."
   -- McCoy, "I, Mudd", Star Trek

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