Why is sprintf ifdef-ed out of <stdio.h>?

[Chris Torek]

bob at omni.com (Bob Weissman) asks why there is an `#ifdef vax' around the
`char *sprintf()' declaration in stdio.h.

The reason is that sprintf() is supposed to return an int value, namely
the number of characters printed, but it was `too painful' to fix this for
4.2 and 4.3 BSD, so it was left *wrong* in the BSD VAX systems and made
correct in SunOS.

Why the `#ifdef vax' ... `#endif' lines were never removed from the Sun
stdio.h I cannot answer.  Note that sprintf() has been fixed in
4.3BSD-tahoe.

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