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- From: Erik Max Francis <max@alcyone.com>
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- Subject: Re: sprintf() question
- Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 20:15:42 -0800
- Organization: Alcyone Systems
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- Ed Hook wrote:
-
- > The Standard says that this invokes undefined behavior, so don't do it.
- > Also, you could probably have answered your own question quite simply:
-
- Checking whether a feature is ANSI-compliant is not going to get desired
- results. For implementation-dependent behavior, sometimes it will do what you
- want. Sometimes it will do something strange. And sometimes it will do
- something disastrous. And you're not guaranteed that the behavior will be
- consistent from run to run. (It may work today but crash horribly in some
- curious circumstances tomorrow.)
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