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- From: danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop)
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- Subject: Re: Where Can I Find Standard C Library S
- Date: 8 Feb 96 03:10:09 GMT
- Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
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- In <4fb90l$ouo@spanky.pls.ov.com> glenn@ov.com (Fletcher.Glenn@ov.com) writes:
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- >printf is usually very system specific once you get down to the level
- >of actually outputting characters to a display device. Therefore,
- >you can only talk about source for a specific platform.
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- Actually, there is absolutely nothing which is system specific in printf,
- which can be implemented without a single line of system-specific code.
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- To output a character, printf simply calls putc, which is system-specific,
- indeed. There is no need for printf to contain its own version of putc.
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- Dan
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