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Mark up occurence of printf() in text with .Fn

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uwe 2013-01-20 11:01:17 +00:00
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@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
.\" $NetBSD: printf.3,v 1.60 2013/01/20 10:57:19 uwe Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: printf.3,v 1.61 2013/01/20 11:01:17 uwe Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@ -884,7 +884,9 @@ Be sure to use the proper secure idiom:
snprintf(buffer, sizeof(buffer), "%s", string);
.Ed
.Pp
There is no way for printf to know the size of each argument passed.
There is no way for
.Fn printf
to know the size of each argument passed.
If you use positional arguments you must ensure that all parameters, up to the
last positionally specified parameter, are used in the format string.
This allows for the format string to be parsed for this information.