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Subject: snprintf error
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F:\Vijay\C> type string.c

/* string.c - print sub-strings of random length */
#if  !defined ( __STDC__ ) || !defined ( __STDC_VERSION__ )
#error The compiler is not C99 compliant
#endif

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>

#define TIMES 5

int
main ( void )
{
    const char *str = ( const char [] ) { "Calvin and Hobbes" };
    srand ( time ( NULL ) );

    int len = strlen ( str );
    char *another_string =  malloc ( len + 1 );

    if ( another_string )
    {
        for ( int i = 0; i < TIMES; i++ )
        {
            int rand_len = rand () % len;
            rand_len = snprintf ( another_string, rand_len, "%s", str );
            another_string[rand_len] = '\0'; /* not really required */
            puts ( another_string );
        }
        free ( another_string );
        return EXIT_SUCCESS;
    }
    return EXIT_FAILURE;
}

F:\Vijay\C> gcc -std=c99 -Wall
string.c: In function `main':
string.c:27: warning: implicit declaration of function `snprintf'
f:/vijay/djgpp/tmp/cceCfRI9.o(.text+0xcd):string.c: undefined reference to `_snprintf'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

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