TC++: "floating point formats not linked"

[Henry Spencer]

In article <279 at nazgul.UUCP> bright at nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright) writes:
>/You could of course also have the compiler pay special attention to the
>/format strings for *scanf() and *printf(), although that is not foolproof.
>
>2. The library is supposed to be independent of the compiler...

Nope; they are both part of the "implementation", and may well be heavily
interdependent.  Notably, it's very difficult to avoid interdependencies
in longjmp().

>   ... could make it very problematical if
>   somebody rolled their own printf/scanf.

There is no portable way to do this anyway; ANSI C reserves all the
standard-library identifiers and forbids redefinition.
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