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USENIX Technical Program - Abstract - USENIX Annual
Conference, General Session - June 2000
Extended Data Formatting Using Sfio
Glenn S. Fowler, David G. Korn, and Kiem-Phong Vo, AT&T
Labs-Research
Abstract
The ANSI-C Standard defines Stdio as the I/O library for C programs.
Despite its ubiquitous use, Stdio has well-documented deficiencies in
various areas including data formatting. The Sfio library provides an
alternative to Stdio with improved functionality; robustness and
performance. In particular, Sfio extends the data formatting functions
so that applications can deal with arbitrary scalar objects, avoid
unsafe operations and even define their own conversion patterns. This
paper discusses these formatting enhancements.
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