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Re: Problem with printf
- From: Nick Garnett <nickg at ecoscentric dot com>
- To: <sidharth at clarinox dot com>
- Cc: <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>, <gokhan at clarinox dot com>
- Date: 18 May 2004 10:01:54 +0100
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Problem with printf
- References: <200405180741.i4I7fDM00387@mail002.syd.optusnet.com.au>
"Sidharth Jandhyala" <sidharth@clarinox.com> writes:
> Why has eCos been implemented such that the '\n' must be included at the end
> of the printf statement. Is there a way to avoid this characteristic. Is
> there a way to flush the print buffers other than looking for the '\n'.
This is standard C library behaviour. The library buffers all output
characters internally until either the buffer is full or, for line
buffered streams, a newline is output. If you want to cause buffered
data to be output before either of those conditions occurs, use
fflush(stdout).
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