On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 07:26:50PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Kristian Høgsberg wrote: > > > On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 11:55 +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > > > So your suggestion is out, unless you suggest to implement the whole > > > printf mechanism... which I hope you're not. > > > > It's not a terrible idea, honestly. > > Heh. Yeah, I actually posted a start... > > > There are several mature vsnprintf implementations out there under > > friendly licenses. We could just stick it in compat/. It's the only > > way to do reliable, cross platform vsnprintf, in my experience. And the > > issue with %I64u vs %llu could be handle by implementing both, as Wayne > > Davison suggests. > > Sure, we could always copy from somewhere else. My rationale was that I > had fun writing it, and that we do not really need a full printf() > implementation. And vsnprintf is a mess accross systems, returning -1 when not expected. I even had the surprise to get an interesting bug in liferea/libxml2 due to glibc's vsnprintf returning -1 in some obscure cases. Mike -- 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
