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VPRINTF(3C)							   VPRINTF(3C)

NAME
       vprintf,	 vfprintf,  vsprintf,  vsnprintf,  vasprintf - print formatted
       output of a variable argument list

SYNOPSIS
       #include <stdio.h>
       #include <stdarg.h>

       int vprintf(const char *format, va_list ap);

       int vfprintf(FILE *stream, const char *format, va_list ap);

       int vsprintf(char *s, const char *format, va_list ap);

       int vsnprintf(char *s, size_t n, const char *format, va_list ap);

       int vasprintf(char **ret, const char *format, va_list ap);

DESCRIPTION
       The vprintf(), vfprintf(),  vsprintf(),	vsnprintf(),  and  vasprintf()
       functions  are  the same as printf(), fprintf(), sprintf(), snprintf(),
       and asprintf(), respectively, except that instead of being called  with
       a  variable  number of arguments, they are called with an argument list
       as defined in the <stdarg.h> header. See printf(3C).

       The <stdarg.h> header defines the type va_list and a set of macros  for
       advancing  through a list of arguments whose number and types may vary.
       The argument ap to the vprint family of functions is of	type  va_list.
       This   argument	 is  used  with	 the  <stdarg.h>  header  file	macros
       va_start(), va_arg(), and va_end()  (see	 stdarg(3EXT)).	 The  EXAMPLES
       section	below  demonstrates  the  use  of va_start() and va_end() with
       vprintf().

       The macro va_alist() is used as the parameter list in a function	 defi‐
       nition,	as  in	the  function called error() in the example below. The
       macro va_start(ap, name), where ap is of type va_list and name  is  the
       rightmost  parameter  (just  before  ...),  must	 be  called before any
       attempt	to  traverse  and  access  unnamed  arguments  is  made.   The
       va_end(ap)  macro  must be invoked when all desired arguments have been
       accessed. The argument list in ap can be traversed again if  va_start()
       is called again after va_end(). In the example below, the error() argu‐
       ments (arg1, arg2, ...) are passed to vfprintf() in the argument ap.

RETURN VALUES
       Refer to printf(3C).

ERRORS
       The vprintf() and vfprintf() functions will fail if either  the	stream
       is unbuffered or the stream's buffer needed to be flushed and:

       EFBIG
		The file is a regular file and an attempt was made to write at
		or beyond the offset maximum.

EXAMPLES
       Example 1 Using vprintf() to write an error routine.

       The following demonstrates how vfprintf() could be  used	 to  write  an
       error routine:

	 #include <stdio.h>
	 #include <stdarg.h>
	 . . .
	 /*
	  *   error should be called like
	  *	    error(function_name, format, arg1, ...);
	  */
	 void error(char *function_name, char *format, ...)
	 {
		 va_list ap;
		 va_start(ap, format);
		 /* print out name of function causing error */
		 (void) fprintf(stderr, "ERR in %s: ", function_name);
		 /* print out remainder of message */
		 (void) vfprintf(stderr, format, ap);
		 va_end(ap);
		 (void) abort();
	 }

ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       ┌────────────────────┬─────────────────┐
       │  ATTRIBUTE TYPE    │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
       ├────────────────────┼─────────────────┤
       │Interface Stability │ Committed	      │
       ├────────────────────┼─────────────────┤
       │MT-Level	    │ See below.      │
       ├────────────────────┼─────────────────┤
       │Standard	    │ See below.      │
       └────────────────────┴─────────────────┘

       All  of	these  functions  can be used safely in multithreaded applica‐
       tions, as long as setlocale(3C) is  not	being  called  to  change  the
       locale.

       See   standards(5)   for	  the	standards  conformance	of  vprintf(),
       vfprintf(), vsprintf(), and vsnprintf(). The  vasprintf()  function  is
       modeled	on  the	 one  that  appears  in the FreeBSD, NetBSD, and GNU C
       libraries.

SEE ALSO
       printf(3C), attributes(5), stdarg(3EXT), attributes(5), standards(5)

NOTES
       The vsnprintf() return value when n = 0 was changed in the  Solaris  10
       release.	 The change was based on the SUSv3 specification. The previous
       behavior	 was  based  on	 the  initial	SUSv2	specification,	 where
       vsnprintf() when n = 0 returns an unspecified value less than 1.

				  Jan 7, 2009			   VPRINTF(3C)
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