Borland C++ bug?

[house ron]

del at percheron.ecn.purdue.edu (David A Whittemore) writes:

>under borland C++ 2.0, however, the line:
>        sprintf(line, "%s %s", line, word);

>acts like:
>        strcpy(line, word) !

>which means it wipes out the existing contents of "line".

>is this a borland bug, or have i been making some bad
>assumptions as to how sprintf() works for years?

To quote the ANSI C standard, "If copying takes place between objects
that overlap, the behaviour is undefined."

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Ron House.   (s64421 at zeus.usq.edu.au)
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