On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:20:55 +0100, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Junio C Hamano schrieb: > > "H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.brand@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> 3 I am willing to believe that HP_UX' vsnprintf () is broken, or > >> at least does not conform to the expectations in the GNU world, > >> but chickening out like the way strbuf_addf () does is maybe a > >> bit too rude, so I forced a minimum of 64bytes available. That > >> fixes a lot! > >> > >> but it still breaks t4013 :( > > > > I think Shawn had something similar for Solaris, and if it is a small > > cost to help portability, it does not feel so bad. > > Windows's vsnprintf() is broken in two regards: (1) It returns -1 if the > buffer is too small; (2) the size parameter is not the size of the buffer, > but the max. number of chars to write (i.e. does not count the NUL). How > broken is HP-UX's? Do you have a simple test program to show how `broken' it is? I have 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23/PA and 11.23/IPF and both HP C-ANSI-C and gcc > Maybe we can share the implementation? See: > > http://repo.or.cz/w/git/mingw.git?a=commitdiff;h=5fd41ffacdef5454acbe51f5e23a97eb5158226d > http://repo.or.cz/w/git/mingw.git?a=commitdiff;h=e88aa8cbe816526bb0a7d37eaf2f5eb40ff36ae1 -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using & porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, & 11.23, SuSE 10.1 & 10.2, AIX 5.2, and Cygwin. http://qa.perl.org http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
