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		epsylon on Dec 4, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GCC Poison snprintf is C99 IIRC. Which means legacy C89 compilers (or worse!) don't have it.

panzi on Dec 4, 2013 [–]

Which brings it back again to my initial comment: "I don't understand why functions like gets and sprintf weren't removed from the standard and headers a long time ago."

And by a long time I mean before 1989 (certainly before 1999).

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