VWPRINTF(3POSIX)

💖 VWPRINTF — wide-character formatted output of a stdarg argument list 💖

okay bestie, so this one's from the POSIX Programmer's Manual (that's the 3POSIX part of the name, iykyk) — it's a whole family of pages and you're holding the vwprintf one. 🎀

🌸 PROLOG 🌸

real talk first: this manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ — so if you're on Linux, go peek at the corresponding Linux manual page for the actual tea on Linux behavior. Or, plot twist, the interface might not even be implemented on Linux at all. 🙈

✨ NAME ✨

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

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

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

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

like, look at that signature. she's serving exactly what the name promises. 👑

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

okay so this is the moment where I tell you to go read vfwprintf(). that's it. that's the description. refer to vfwprintf(). no cap, the whole vibe lives over there. 🫶

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

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. (that's the main character here, fr fr. this page is just the understudy.)

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 .

aaaand that's the whole page, bestie — short and sweet, she ate and left absolutely zero crumbs. 🍓✨ this edition was served up by IEEE/The Open Group, 2017, and you were reading VWPRINTF(3POSIX). mwah, periodt. 💜🧚