snprintf and sprintf act differenting when writing to an argument
Ulrich Drepper
drepper@cygnus.com
Thu Apr 1 00:00:00 GMT 1999
abakun@reac.com writes:
> >Description: The results of sprintf and snprintf are not the same
> when passing a source string argument that is also the destiniation
> string. Specificly, when the destination string argument is also
> specified as a source string, sprintf allows this, and snprintf
> clears the destiniation string first.
And your point? This is completely unspecified. The implementation
would even be allows to clear the whole output string before writing
to it.
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