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Re:The Type of Sprintf by anonymousiam on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @10:59PM (#40362632)
Can you elaborate please? Your description does not match what I see. My understanding is that this is a way to more strongly type function arguments, as an alternative to va_arg.
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Re:The Type of Sprintf by jznsis on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @11:39PM (#40362859)
Yes, but the final result is out_str, not a forward to console, isn't it?

Either way, the format string discussion for the printf familiy of functions is very similar between them

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Re:The Type of Sprintf by anonymousiam on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @11:46PM (#40362896)
Okay, got it. So you are agreeing with me that the author should have used printf instead of sprintf.

Thanks!

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Re:The Type of Sprintf by jznsis on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @12:07AM (#40363003)
No
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