Re: Why _snprintf?
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 14:11:54 +0100, Tom Widmer [VC++ MVP] wrote:
Daniel Lidstr?m wrote:
Hello!
Why is the C-function sprintf named _snprintf in Microsoft's C-library?
I assume you mean snprintf, not sprintf? sprintf is named sprintf, as
you'd expect.
Yes, sorry for the typo.
It
makes it hard to write code for two platforms. What is the recommended way
to use snprintf, to minimize the trouble when compiling with VC7.1 and gcc?
snprintf is not part of C90 - portable C code cannot rely on it
existing. Microsoft kindly denotes their extensions to ISO C using a _
prefix, while GCC just pollutes the global namespace with non-standard
identifiers (though I suspect this behaviour can be modified with a
#define).
Ah, thanks for this explanation. Nice to know Microsoft has done something
good this time :-)
You can of course do:
#define snprintf _snprintf
Yes.
Thanks to all who replied!
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