marcus@wivax.UUCP (11/26/84)
You heard it here first ... In Bell Labs' next release of the C language, the function 'sprintf' will be replaced by 'attf'. The old name will still work, but only if you prefix the string argument with a fourteen-digit code.
padpowell@wateng.UUCP (PAD Powell) (11/27/84)
From marcus@wivax.UUCP Mon Nov 26 14:44:18 1984
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: C function replacement
You heard it here first ...
In Bell Labs' next release of the C language, the function 'sprintf'
will be replaced by 'attf'. The old name will still work, but only if
you prefix the string argument with a fourteen-digit code.
Hurray! now we can all start using "snprintf()" and "sxprintf()",
which have bounds checking. I have found the most HORRIFYING number of
errors caused because people did a
innocent_looking_function(buffer,str)
{
sprintf(buffer,"...%s", str);
}
Imagine the fun if "buffer" is a stack variable. Culprits so far range from
ar to uucp...
Patrick ("stamp out functions that don't have bounds checking") Powellhamilton@uiucuxc.UUCP (11/28/84)
/* ---------- "C function replacement" ---------- */ You heard it here first ... In Bell Labs' next release of the C language, the function 'sprintf' will be replaced by 'attf'. The old name will still work, but only if you prefix the string argument with a fourteen-digit code. /* End of text from uiucuxc:net.rumor */ and have you heard about the $2/month access() charge?
bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) (12/07/84)
> Article <20290@wivax.UUCP>, from marcus@wivax.UUCP +---------------- | You heard it here first ... | | In Bell Labs' next release of the C language, the function 'sprintf' will | be replaced by 'attf'. The old name will still work, but only if you prefix | the string argument with a fourteen-digit code. And soon afterward will come, from Berkeley, the bsdf() function, which will be greatly and somewhat non-portably expanded in function (and a little buggy); to be released at the same time as their new long distance network, which will provide long names for exchanges and symbolic links between phones :-) --bsa -- Brandon Allbery @ North Coast Xenix | the.world!ucbvax!decvax!cwruecmp! 6504 Chestnut Road, Independence, Ohio | {atvax!}ncoast!{tdi1!}bsa (216) 524-1416 \ 44131 | E1439@CSUOHIO.BITNET (friend's acct.) | BALLBERY (161-7070) on MCI Mail ---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------- Keeping the Galaxies safe for Civilization... :-)
nather@utastro.UUCP (Ed Nather) (12/10/84)
[-+-- begone!]
>Keeping the Galaxies safe for Civilization... :-)
Shouldn't that be " ... safe *from* Civilization ..."?
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Ed Nather
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