VWPRINTF(3P)

🎀 VWPRINTF(3P) — the girlies' guide 🎀

okay bestie, so this one lives in the POSIX Programmer's Manual (yes, that POSIX — Issue 7 energy), and it's literally just called vwprintf. It's a page about wide-character formatted output of a stdarg argument list. Short page, big vibe. Let's get into it 💅

✨ PROLOG ✨

So, real talk first: this manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual, periodt. But here's the ✨plot twist✨ you need to know before you go wild:

• The Linux implementation of this interface may differ — so pls consult the corresponding Linux manual page for the deets on Linux behavior 🙈
• Or, and hear me out, the interface may not be implemented on Linux at all 💀

Not me reading the prolog first like a good student. You should too. It's giving "read the fine print bestie".

👑 NAME 👑

vwprintf — wide-character formatted output of a stdarg argument list

That's it. That's the whole name section. Iconic and brief 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <stdarg.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <wchar.h>

int vwprintf(const wchar_t *restrict format, va_list arg);

Look at those three includes, all cozy together 🥰 stdarg.h, stdio.h, wchar.h — the holy trinity of "yes I am doing varargs and wide chars at the same time".

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Refer to vfwprintf().

That's literally the entire description. One line. The man page said "go ask my sister, she knows everything" and honestly? Respect. Go read vfwprintf() if you want the actual lore, bestie — this page is just the cute little forwarding address 🌈

📜 COPYRIGHT 📜

okay so legally I have to say all of this and I am NOT about to get us in trouble, so here's the whole thing, no cap:

Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format. To report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .

fr fr: if this page and the official standard ever disagree, the official standard wins. This one is just the vibes-forward translation 💀

IEEE/The Open Group · 2017 · VWPRINTF(3P) — and that's the whole page, bestie. Short, sweet, and fully referenced. Go read vfwprintf() for the real content, mwah 💋✨🦋