Subject: Re: commit - removed snprintf
From: Vlad Harchev (hvv@hippo.ru)
Date: Wed Nov 01 2000 - 00:32:47 CST
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, sam th wrote:
Hi Sam,
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> Some of the recently committed code included snprintf calls (spec. in
> xap_EncodingManager.cpp). Sadly, snprintf is not yet universally
> available, and is not present on PPC BeOS. Therefore, these snprintf's
> have been replaced by sprintf. If you (Vlad) desperately want snprint,
> then you need to find some way to do it so that PPC BeOS still compiles.
OK. They were needed to disallow buffer overflows in it. But there is a small
probability that they can be encountered.
I think I have a nice idea on how to cleanly use snprintf on one arch and
sprintf on other without using #ifdefs - the use of CPP macros.
I will post a solution sometime.
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> sam th
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Best regards,
-Vlad
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