_doprnt and friends, the moral

[Martin Minow]

The moral of the story is that there is a perceived need for
a _doprnt-like facility.  Perhaps someone could propose
a routine such as the following to the ANSI committee:

	vprintf(iov, format, vector)
	FILE *iov;	/* Stream to output to		*/
	char *format;	/* printf format string		*/
	STUFF *vector;	/* vector of data for output	*/

STUFF would be defined as the union of all built-in datatypes.

vsprintf(buffer, ...), vscanf(), and vsscanf() might also be useful.

Martin Minow
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