[lug] An unusual C construct

[Zan Lynx]

On 9/21/10 8:39 PM, Anthony Foiani wrote:
> [catching up on weeks ... er, months ... of posts...]
>
> Bear Giles<bgiles at coyotesong.com>  writes:
>>     I've used it all the time with things like
>>
>>        sprintf(sizeof(tbl->name), "%s", tbl->name);
>
> And just in case someone runs across this in the archive, that looks
> like an odd call to 'sprintf'.  Maybe just:
>
>      printf( "sizeof( %s ) = %u\n", "tblp->name", sizeof( tblp->name ) );
>

I think what he must have meant there is:
	snprintf(tbl->name, sizeof(tbl->name), "%s", new_name);

That would make a lot more sense to me.
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