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stdio/Changes 11/20/92
Substantive changes in new ANSI/iBCS2 compliant stdio library:

The new version of stdio defines the following 41 functions, as in ANSI C:
clearerr()
fclose()
feof()
ferror()
fflush()
fgetc()
fgetpos()
fgets()
fopen()
fprintf()
fputc()
fputs()
fread()
freopen()
fscanf()
fseek()
fsetpos()
ftell()
fwrite()
getc()
getchar()
gets()
perror()
printf()
putc()
putchar()
puts()
remove()
rename()
rewind()
scanf()
setbuf()
setvbuf()
sprintf()
sscanf()
tmpfile()
tmpnam()
ungetc()
vfprintf()
vprintf()

Of these, the following were not previously defined in COH libc.a:
fgetpos()
fsetpos()
setvbuf()
tmpfile()
[Others were added to COHERENT libc.a after 4.0.1, namely v*printf().]

In addition, it defines the following non-ANSI (Unix V7) functions,
not previously defined in COHERENT libc.a:
ecvt()
fcvt()
gcvt()

Some of the silent effects of the changes to libc.a and <stdio.h>:
stdio.h		Used to define "extern char *malloc();" et al.,
		these were also (correctly) defined in <stdlib.h>,
		which is where the definition belongs.
		The new <stdio.h> does not define malloc(),
		programs should #include <stdlib.h> to get its definition.
printf() et al.	COH printf() used formats "%[DOUX]" as meaning "%l[doux]".
		ANSI uses "%X" as same "%x" but printing "0X<digits>" rather
		than "0x<digits>" and does not recognize the other forms.
rewind()	COH defined int rewind(), ANSI defines void rewind();
		i.e., rewind() no longer returns status.
scanf() et al.	COH recognized "%E" and "%F" as meaning "%le" and "%lf".
		ANSI defines "%E" and "%G" as same as "%e" and "%g",
		requiring an explicit 'l' flag for doubles.
This is only a partial list, see the ANSI document for more details!

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