Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> The description of fputc clearly states that upon error, it *shall* set
> the error indicator, and that it may fail if ENOMEM:

I think there are two failure modes for ENOMEM:

- inability to allocate stdio buffers
- inability to allocate conversion buffers

Only the first condition is related to stream output, and the second
condition is unique to *printf, and can happen without fputc being
called.

Andreas.

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