[Coco] glork!!!

[Manny]

Gene Heskett wrote:


>> Specifically, ..printf("foo bar\n") returned -79xxx and

>> ... printf("%s\n","foo bar") returns 31744!

>>

>> Very very strange.



> You are leaving out the output format specifier in the first case Willard.  Go 

> look up printf in any C reference book.  Also, the "foo bar" should point at 

> the defined variables.  Either that or bit rot has gotten to your copy...

> 

> Normal syntax would be:

> 

> printf("list-of-format-strings\r", nameofvar, nameofvar, etc);

> 

> That's off the top of my head, but that's how I remember it, having written a 

> bunch of stuff in C.


Both of Willard's examples are perfectly fine for ANSI C. I would 
suspect that the same would be held for K&R C, as well.

An interesting note about the return value of printf in gcc:

printf ("%d\n", printf ("foo bar\n"));

Returns the number of characters that were printed to stdout. (Which 
would be 8 in this case.)

So, unless I've missed the whole point of this post, which I normally 
end up doing, the return values of the printf function is weird. :)

If there any source to his libs?

-M.