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20. Library routines.

The following library routines are provided for your convenience.

stdio.h - Contains the following functions printf & sprintf these routines are developed by Martijn van Balen <balen@natlab.research.philips.com>.

%[flags][width][b|B|l|L]type           flags: -        left justify output in specified field width
 
                 +        prefix output with +/- sign if output is signed
 type 
                 space    prefix output with a blank if it's a signed
 positive value 
          width:          specifies minimum number of characters
 outputted for numbers 
                          or strings. 
                         
 - For numbers, spaces are added on the left when needed. 
                           
 If width starts with a zero character, zeroes and used 
                           
 instead of spaces. 
                          - For strings, spaces are are
 added on the left or right (when 
                            flag '-' is used)
 when needed. 
                          
          b/B:            byte argument
 (used by d, u, o, x, X) 
          l/L:            long argument (used by d,
 u, o, x, X)
          type:  d        decimal number 
                 u       
 unsigned decimal number 
                 o        unsigned octal number 
                
 x        unsigned hexadecimal number (0-9, a-f) 
                 X       
 unsigned hexadecimal number (0-9, A-F) 
                 c        character
 
                 s        string (generic pointer) 
                 p       
 generic pointer (I:data/idata, C:code, X:xdata, P:paged) 
                
 f        float (still to be implemented)
 

Also contains a very simple version of printf (printf_small). This simplified version of printf supports only the following formats.

format     output type     argument-type <bf>
%d         decimal      
 int 
%ld        decimal       long 
%hd        decimal       short/char
 
%x        hexadecimal    int 
%lx       hexadecimal    long
 
%hx       hexadecimal    short/char 
%o         octal         int
 
%lo        octal         long 
%ho        octal         short/char
 
%c        character      char/short 
%s        character     _generic
 pointer
 <p><tt>The routine is <tt><bf>very stack intesive , --stack-after-data parameter should
 be used when using this routine, the routine also takes about 1K of code space
 .It also expects an external function named putchar(char ) to be present (this
 can be changed). When using the %s format the string / pointer should
 be cast to a generic pointer. eg.
 

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