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Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 14:14:08 -0500
From: Tom Vier <tmv5@home.com>
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Subject: Re: [OT] fputc vs putc Re: horrible disk thorughput on itanium
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On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 01:27:51AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> putc() is frequently defined as
> 
> #define putc(__C)   fputc((__C), stdout)
> 
> ... or some equivalent; I think the best way to say it's that it's a
> shorthand.

according to the putc man page in debian stable, it takes the same args as
fputc. maybe it varies by glibc version (mine is 2.1.3-19). i guess anyone
using putc better use autoconf. also, "unix system programming for SVr4"
says the only difference is that putc is an inlined macro version of fputc.

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