Managing error strings in C

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1991Jan22.021205.29632 at dirtydog.ima.isc.com> karl at ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
>X/Open has it.  "%4$d" means print the 4th argument in decimal.

Apart from the implementation issues you mentioned, I'd like to point
out that the character '$' is not universally available.