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From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 18:32:05 -0400
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Subject: Re: {v,}snprintf.c ???
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References: <375EB600 DOT 979DA70D AT cyberoptics DOT com> from "Eric Rudd" at Jun 9, 99 01:44:16 pm
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>   I was playing with djgpp this afternoon and notice snprintf()
> was missing.  It's not ANSI  not even POSIX, I beleive. But more and
> more apps use it because of the security that it provides, sprintf() and
> vsprintf() provide no buffer checks.
> 

> stdio.h:
> int vsnprintf(char *s, size_t n, const char *format, va_list ap);
> int snprintf(char *s, size_t n, const char *format, ...);

Both are in the ANSI C9X draft so I would consider them ANSI.


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