Re: [PATCH 15/67] convert trivial sprintf / strcpy calls to xsnprintf

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Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 11:19:21PM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote:
>
>> >                 strcpy(hexbuf[stage], sha1_to_hex(ce->sha1));
>> > -               sprintf(ownbuf[stage], "%o", ce->ce_mode);
>> > +               xsnprintf(ownbuf[stage], sizeof(ownbuf[stage]), "%o", ce->ce_mode);
>> 
>> Interesting. I wonder if there are any (old/broken) compilers which
>> would barf on this. If we care, perhaps sizeof(ownbuf[0]) instead?
>
> Good point. I've changed it to sizeof(ownbuf[0]).

Panda brain is lost here.  What's the difference, other than that we
will now appear to be measuring the size of the thing at index 0
while using that size to stuff data into a different location?  All
elements of the array are of the same size so there wouldn't be any
difference either way, no?
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