Missing ANSI functions?

[Alex]

On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Geoffrey Noer wrote:

> Jon & Sue Trauntvein wrote:
[...]
> > functions are strrev (reverse a "C" string in place) and itoa (convert a =
> > signed integer to an ASCII string). Is there something that I am doing =
> > wrong or are these functions trully missing?
> 
> Neither function is provided by gcc's libraries (including Cygwin32).
> I can't find either in my C library books or in the POSIX spec so they're
> not going to be added.

I think itoa() would make a nice addition, as would snprintf (the BSD
source from FreeBSD compiles without a hitch). itoa could probably be
hacked up with snprintf, say something similar to the below.

char *snprintf(int I)
{
char *blah;
sprintf("%d",I)l
return blah;
}

- alex

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