ASPRINTF
NAMESYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
RETURN VALUE
ATTRIBUTES
CONFORMING TO
SEE ALSO
COLOPHON
NAME
asprintf, vasprintf - print to allocated string
SYNOPSIS
#define
_GNU_SOURCE /* See feature_test_macros(7) */
#include <stdio.h>
int asprintf(char **strp, const char *fmt, ...);
int vasprintf(char **strp, const char *fmt, va_list ap);
DESCRIPTION
The functions asprintf() and vasprintf() are analogs of sprintf(3) and vsprintf(3), except that they allocate a string large enough to hold the output including the terminating null byte ('\0'), and return a pointer to it via the first argument. This pointer should be passed to free(3) to release the allocated storage when it is no longer needed.
RETURN VALUE
When successful, these functions return the number of bytes printed, just like sprintf(3). If memory allocation wasn’t possible, or some other error occurs, these functions will return -1, and the contents of strp are undefined.
ATTRIBUTES
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).