just to throw in my two cents: * Joel E. Denny wrote on Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 03:47:04PM CEST: > printf's lack of availability as a builtin (rather than lack of > availability altogether) on some systems doesn't imply lack of portability
Some system's printf's are pretty buggy, too (core dump with long arguments and so). info Autoconf "Limitations of Builtins" has details. Cheers, Ralf
