Re: Unable to build current cvs

[Angus Leeming]

On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 02:00:01PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> > >>>>> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > Angus> needless to say, there's no vsnprintf on my system.
> >
> > It seems to be a gnu extension (according to the man page).
>
>   According to mine: man 3 printf
>
>   The fprintf, printf,  sprintf,  vprintf,  vfprintf,  and  vsprintf
>   functions  conform  to  ANSI  C3.159-1989 (`ANSI C'') and ISO/IEC
>   9899:1999 (`ISO C99'').  The  snprintf  and  vsnprintf  functions
>   conform to ISO/IEC 9899:1999.
>
>   I don't think that ISO C99 should be called a gnu extension. ;-)
>   You are lucky to have said that today, if it was tomorrow friday 13
> I don't know what the consequences would be...

you're giving me the heebie jeebies...

Pulling himself together:

That's as maybe. For those of us whose <string> is sufficient but who don't 
have vsnprintf, what's the work-around!

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