Subject: Re: commit - removed snprintf
From: sam th (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Wed Nov 01 2000 - 03:00:47 CST
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On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Caolan McNamara wrote:
> At 10:32 01.11.00 +0400, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> >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 have been replaced by sprintf.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.
> >
> > 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.
>
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> Use a configure test and add a snprintf implementation when its not found ?
> its what I do.
>
> test: http://research.cys.de/autoconf-archive/C_Support/ac_func_snprintf.html
> implementation: http://www.ijs.si/software/snprintf/
Just two problems with this:
1) we don't use autoconf
2) the impl. is under the artistic license, which is non-GPL compatible.
However, if someone does find a freely available and easy to steal
snprintf, I would be amenable to that solution.
sam th
sam@uchicago.edu
http://www.abisource.com/~sam/
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