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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
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Posted: Fri Feb  8 13:16:33 1985
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> ...  "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.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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