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author | DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com> | 2009-05-30 05:18:46 +0000 |
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committer | DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com> | 2009-05-30 05:18:46 +0000 |
commit | 8893fa20206a4f651a5469eb0dfae419c178f2a7 (patch) | |
tree | a31743d5168a52b7c8b47dbcf5c4d3db7f3a7b4b /libiberty/vsnprintf.c | |
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diff --git a/libiberty/vsnprintf.c b/libiberty/vsnprintf.c index 7df5bd8..5470df2 100644 --- a/libiberty/vsnprintf.c +++ b/libiberty/vsnprintf.c @@ -27,13 +27,15 @@ the executable file might be covered by the GNU General Public License. */ @deftypefn Supplemental int vsnprintf (char *@var{buf}, size_t @var{n}, const char *@var{format}, va_list @var{ap}) -This function is similar to vsprintf, but it will print at most -@var{n} characters. On error the return value is -1, otherwise it -returns the number of characters that would have been printed had -@var{n} been sufficiently large, regardless of the actual value of -@var{n}. Note some pre-C99 system libraries do not implement this -correctly so users cannot generally rely on the return value if the -system version of this function is used. +This function is similar to @code{vsprintf}, but it will write to +@var{buf} at most @code{@var{n}-1} bytes of text, followed by a +terminating null byte, for a total of @var{n} bytes. On error the +return value is -1, otherwise it returns the number of characters that +would have been printed had @var{n} been sufficiently large, +regardless of the actual value of @var{n}. Note some pre-C99 system +libraries do not implement this correctly so users cannot generally +rely on the return value if the system version of this function is +used. @end deftypefn |