I could suggest one to avoid ANSI C functions as much as possible. Write his/her own ones. Why? The motivation has been stated by you: portability concerns.
I could do it ... On 4/28/06, Leonardo Rodrigues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone! > > So, I've been trying to build some apps here on my OpenBSD box, but > the lack of OpenBSD's compliance of some C99 standards is stopping me > from achieving my builds... > The only problem so far is the lack of support for the %a string > format used in functions snprintf and sscanf. > > I've tried to circumvent this problem by using "libtrio" > (http://daniel.haxx.se/projects/trio/), a library that claims to > reimplement those functions above, but I couldn't get it to work right > (it fails right on 'make test'). > > Of course I could just dig myself into the code and try to implement > this standard... but I'm a mediocre programmer... > > Suggestions on how to solve this problem of mine (workarounds, etc) are > welcome! > > -- > An OpenBSD user... and that's all you need to know =)
