Re: putc vs printf

2010-03-26 Thread Simon Josefsson
Thien-Thi Nguyen writes: > GNU RCS does not presently use gnulib, but it will in the future. > With that in mind, i have a question inspired by this comment in > the source code: > > /* Output the first character with `putc', not `printf'. > Otherwise, an SVR4 stdio bug buffers output inef

putc vs printf

2010-03-26 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
GNU RCS does not presently use gnulib, but it will in the future. With that in mind, i have a question inspired by this comment in the source code: /* Output the first character with `putc', not `printf'. Otherwise, an SVR4 stdio bug buffers output inefficiently. */ I don't know what to m