On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 11:31:31AM -0500, John Cowan wrote: > Peter Bex <peter....@xs4all.nl> scripsit: > > > However, I've tested all three Windows builds, and they all behave > > equally well (or better) with s[n]printf() instead of gcvt(). We no > > longer have a MSVC build, so the original problem probably was there, > > As of Visual C++ 2005, Microsoft deprecated all the functions in the C > Runtime Library that aren't part of ISO C. So snprintf, which is part > of Posix but not ISO C, appears as _snprintf. This is a general problem > which we'll have to solve if we ever want a VC++ build. In some cases, > like gcvt, the original function survives in deprecated form, but _gcvt > is recommended. This is all in the name of avoiding namespace pollution, > a silly concern on Windows with its monstrous <windows.h> file.
We'll fix that when we get to it. I think there may be other calls like it which don't work as-is. We could fix it in chicken.h by aliasing it to C_snprintf or do it some other way. Cheers, Peter -- http://www.more-magic.net _______________________________________________ Chicken-hackers mailing list Chicken-hackers@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-hackers
