Portability part 1 - C99 printf

printf, sprintf, fprintf etc are now all C99 compliant. All except sprintf, which is now signaled as deprecated. This raises a few warnings about sprintf usage in the build. Some I fix with pull requests that will follow. Some others should be fixed by the respective authors.
s/not a/not/.  You only need the "a" *after* necessarily, the one before is spurious.