From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Alternative to fcvt for older DJGPP?
Date: 6 Aug 2003 09:48:21 GMT
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Quasar <haleyjd AT hotmail DOT com> wrote:

> Aside from the use of fcvt in one place, the rest of the code is pure
> ANSI C. 

Pardong the French, but that's quite a piece of nonsense. It makes
about as much sense as "Aside from the cockroach living over there by
the fridge, the rest of our kitchen is perfectly clean".

fcvt() is entirely unportable, and thus an implementation of snprintf
using it cannot ever be called portable, either.

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.