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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-15 19:43:11 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-15 19:43:11 +0000 |
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diff --git a/upstream/opensuse-leap-15-6/man3/asprintf.3 b/upstream/opensuse-leap-15-6/man3/asprintf.3 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7e2ec6f0 --- /dev/null +++ b/upstream/opensuse-leap-15-6/man3/asprintf.3 @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@ +'\" t +.\" Copyright (C) 2001 Andries Brouwer <aeb@cwi.nl> +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft +.\" +.\" Text fragments inspired by Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>. +.\" +.TH asprintf 3 2023-03-30 "Linux man-pages 6.04" +.SH NAME +asprintf, vasprintf \- print to allocated string +.SH LIBRARY +Standard C library +.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.BR "#define _GNU_SOURCE" " /* See feature_test_macros(7) */" +.B #include <stdio.h> +.PP +.BI "int asprintf(char **restrict " strp ", const char *restrict " fmt ", ...);" +.BI "int vasprintf(char **restrict " strp ", const char *restrict " fmt , +.BI " va_list " ap ); +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +The functions +.BR asprintf () +and +.BR vasprintf () +are analogs of +.BR sprintf (3) +and +.BR vsprintf (3), +except that they allocate a string large enough to hold the output +including the terminating null byte (\[aq]\e0\[aq]), +and return a pointer to it via the first argument. +This pointer should be passed to +.BR free (3) +to release the allocated storage when it is no longer needed. +.SH RETURN VALUE +When successful, these functions return the number of bytes printed, +just like +.BR sprintf (3). +If memory allocation wasn't possible, or some other error occurs, +these functions will return \-1, and the contents of +.I strp +are undefined. +.SH ATTRIBUTES +For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see +.BR attributes (7). +.ad l +.nh +.TS +allbox; +lbx lb lb +l l l. +Interface Attribute Value +T{ +.BR asprintf (), +.BR vasprintf () +T} Thread safety MT-Safe locale +.TE +.hy +.ad +.sp 1 +.SH VERSIONS +The FreeBSD implementation sets +.I strp +to NULL on error. +.SH STANDARDS +GNU, BSD. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR free (3), +.BR malloc (3), +.BR printf (3) |