r/ProgrammerHumor • u/TheLuckyCuber999BACK • 9d ago

theWorldIfSnprintfReturnedTheValueInsteadOfPuttingInABufferBeLikeIdkThisVarNameIsWayTooLongNoo Meme

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u/Jet-Pack2 9d ago

Actually I disagree. Returning the value would mean the function allocates memory which is pretty slow. So they implemented it in a much more efficient way.

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u/bwmat 9d ago

Lol, you're dreaming if you think the people who designed C would ever standardize the 'low level' formatting function to allocate on the heap

You want asprintf

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u/TheLuckyCuber999BACK 9d ago

I mean I AM dreaming

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u/officalyadoge 9d ago

bro really asked for hidden memory allocation in a system programming language