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Re: When parameters to printf are in memory

From James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: When parameters to printf are in memory
Date 2016-09-29 16:43 +0100
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On 29/09/2016 16:35, Stefan Ram wrote:
> James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> writes:
>> Imagine an array holding an arbitrary number of values which need to be
>> supplied to one of the printf family of functions. Normally, the values
>> passed to such a function would be arguments but in this case they are
>> in memory.
>
>   Are you looking for
>
> 7.21.6.12 The vsnprintf function
> int vsnprintf( char * restrict s, size_t n,
>   char const * restrict format, va_list arg );
>
>   or
>
> 7.21.6.13 The vsprintf function
> int vsprintf( char * restrict s,
>   char const * restrict format, va_list arg );

I don't think so because it looks as though a va_list cannot portably be 
represented as an array. I'd be happy to be told I am wrong....


-- 
James Harris

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When parameters to printf are in memory James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-09-29 16:20 +0100
  Re: When parameters to printf are in memory James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-09-29 16:43 +0100
    Re: When parameters to printf are in memory Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-09-29 20:30 +0100
    Re: When parameters to printf are in memory James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-09-29 21:23 +0100
    Re: When parameters to printf are in memory BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-09-29 22:03 +0100
      Re: When parameters to printf are in memory James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-09-29 22:35 +0100
        Re: When parameters to printf are in memory BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-09-29 23:11 +0100
          Re: When parameters to printf are in memory James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-09-30 19:53 +0100
            Re: When parameters to printf are in memory Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-09-30 20:53 +0100
              Re: When parameters to printf are in memory James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-10-01 09:08 +0100
                Re: When parameters to printf are in memory BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-10-01 11:15 +0100
                Re: When parameters to printf are in memory James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-10-04 08:32 +0100
                Re: When parameters to printf are in memory Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-10-01 11:15 +0100
                Re: When parameters to printf are in memory James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-10-04 08:28 +0100
                Re: When parameters to printf are in memory Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-10-04 09:49 +0100
                Re: When parameters to printf are in memory BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-10-04 11:43 +0100
                Re: When parameters to printf are in memory Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-10-04 13:42 +0100
                Re: When parameters to printf are in memory BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-10-04 14:03 +0100
                Re: When parameters to printf are in memory Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-10-04 14:16 +0100
                Re: When parameters to printf are in memory James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-10-04 20:01 +0100
                Re: When parameters to printf are in memory Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-10-04 20:24 +0100
                Re: When parameters to printf are in memory James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-10-04 20:40 +0100
                Re: When parameters to printf are in memory Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-10-04 22:51 +0100
            Re: When parameters to printf are in memory "James R. Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2016-10-04 14:25 -0400
              Re: When parameters to printf are in memory James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-10-04 20:31 +0100
  Re: When parameters to printf are in memory BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-09-29 17:03 +0100
    Re: When parameters to printf are in memory gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2016-09-30 12:20 +0000
      Re: When parameters to printf are in memory Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2016-09-30 05:55 -0700
      Re: When parameters to printf are in memory James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-09-30 20:06 +0100
        Re: When parameters to printf are in memory gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2016-09-30 22:01 +0000
          Re: When parameters to printf are in memory James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-10-01 09:15 +0100
        Re: When parameters to printf are in memory Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2016-09-30 23:18 -0700
          Re: When parameters to printf are in memory James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-10-01 09:32 +0100
  Re: When parameters to printf are in memory jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2016-09-29 18:35 +0200
    Re: When parameters to printf are in memory James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-09-29 19:55 +0100
      Re: When parameters to printf are in memory jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2016-09-29 21:22 +0200
  Re: When parameters to printf are in memory Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2016-09-29 11:20 -0700
    Re: When parameters to printf are in memory James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-09-29 20:08 +0100
  Re: When parameters to printf are in memory Lőrinczy Zsigmond <nospam@for.me> - 2016-10-02 20:15 +0200
    Re: When parameters to printf are in memory Lőrinczy Zsigmond <nospam@for.me> - 2016-10-02 20:19 +0200
      Re: When parameters to printf are in memory gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2016-10-02 18:29 +0000
        Re: When parameters to printf are in memory Lőrinczy Zsigmond <nospam@for.me> - 2016-10-03 07:04 +0200
          Re: When parameters to printf are in memory James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2016-10-04 08:36 +0100
    Re: When parameters to printf are in memory jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2016-10-02 21:27 +0200

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