minow@decvax.UUCP (Martin Minow) (06/23/84)
The moral of the story is that there is a perceived need for a _doprnt-like facility. Perhaps someone could propose a routine such as the following to the ANSI committee: vprintf(iov, format, vector) FILE *iov; /* Stream to output to */ char *format; /* printf format string */ STUFF *vector; /* vector of data for output */ STUFF would be defined as the union of all built-in datatypes. vsprintf(buffer, ...), vscanf(), and vsscanf() might also be useful. Martin Minow decvax!minow
henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (06/24/84)
The ANSI C committee does want to define a (more or less) machine- independent way to do printf. I wish them luck; it's hard. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry