[26] in Moira
Re: unportable use of stdio in moira library
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Sommerfeld)
Sat Jan 13 18:24:01 1990
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 90 17:11:01 -0500
From: Bill Sommerfeld <wesommer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: John Carr <jfc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-moira@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: John Carr's message of Sat, 13 Jan 90 07:05:44 EST,
_IOSTRG is a hack for use by sprintf.
I vaguely remember putting that there (actually, I thought I put code
like that in the server, but perhaps it wandered over into the library
later. No matter).
It is used as the equivalent of vsprintf, an ANSI C function which
isn't in our C library.
I would have used vsprintf had it existed in our C library.
Perhaps the AIX C library has vsprintf; if it doesn't, good luck.
- Bill
