[Bf-committers] snprintf() -- function not present on Win32.

[Stephane SOPPERA]

Alexander Ewering wrote:

>On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Simon Clitherow wrote:
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>  
>
>>Ok, false alarm!  Found the function in stdio.h. :)
>>    
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>In fact, snprintf() is NOT portable!
>
>>From a BSD manpage:
>
>     hard to assure.  For safety, programmers should use the snprintf()
>inter-
>     face instead.  Unfortunately, this interface is not portable.
>
>>From a Linux manpage:
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>CONFORMING TO
>       These are GNU extensions.
>
>  
>
 From a linux manpage:
       The fprintf, printf, sprintf, vprintf, vfprintf, and vsprintf 
functions
       conform  to  ANSI X3.159-1989 (``ANSI C'') and ISO/IEC 9899:1999 
(``ISO
       C99'').  The  snprintf  and  vsnprintf  functions  conform  to  
ISO/IEC
       9899:1999.

snprintf is C99 and is safer than sprintf (see the bug I reported about 
sequence plugins)

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Stephane SOPPERA
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