Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: 4.2 sprintf too painful? Message-ID: <5041@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Feb-85 13:16:33 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.5041 Posted: Fri Feb 8 13:16:33 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Feb-85 13:16:33 EST References: <247441a5.1de6@apollo.uucp>, <2497ee9f.1de6@apollo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 12 > ... "Too painful" means too painful to hunt down > and fix all the unsupported programs at Berkeley that depend on Berkeley's > non-standard sprintf return value. Once again, Berkeley is getting credit/blame for something that was (mostly) not their fault. "char *" as the return type of sprintf was in V7 (real V7, not x.yBSD mislabelled as V7), although it was undocumented. This would seem to be a documentation botch, since "char *" was in both the code and the lint-library. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry