Does anyone know why this is crashing??

[Brian Fennell]

In article <6240 at mahendo.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> robert at triton.JPL.NASA.GOV writes:
>I have this bit of code that works perfectly on a SPARC and crashes
>on a VMS (O/S- V5.3-A) system?!
>
>int
>init_files(startup_file,...)
>	char *startup_file;
>{
>char buf[256];
>
>#define EOPEN "Unable to open %s file \"%s\"\n"
>(void) print_msg(PERROR,"init_files()",
>                 sprintf(buf,EOPEN,"startup",startup_file));
>
>    -     ------       -                              Robert Angelino

all sprintf's were not created equal (Thanks to the ANSI non-standard
standard)  try changing:
	sprintf(buf, ...... ) 
to
	(sprintf(buf,.....) , buf)

Brian Fennell == fenn at wpi.wpi.edu