The snprintf function on BeOS produces no output if the specified size is
>= 0x3000000. Since gnulib's sprintf.c passed a size of 0x7fffffff, it
fully hits this bug.
The workaround is to use the native sprintf instead.
2007-05-18 Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* lib/vasnprintf.c (USE_SNPRINTF): Define to 0 on BeOS.
*** lib/vasnprintf.c 18 May 2007 17:35:19 -0000 1.43
--- lib/vasnprintf.c 18 May 2007 17:41:21 -0000
***************
*** 111,117 ****
# define DIRECTIVE char_directive
# define DIRECTIVES char_directives
# define PRINTF_PARSE printf_parse
! # define USE_SNPRINTF (HAVE_DECL__SNPRINTF || HAVE_SNPRINTF)
# if HAVE_DECL__SNPRINTF
/* Windows. */
# define SNPRINTF _snprintf
--- 111,124 ----
# define DIRECTIVE char_directive
# define DIRECTIVES char_directives
# define PRINTF_PARSE printf_parse
! # /* Use snprintf if it exists under the name 'snprintf' or '_snprintf'.
! But don't use it on BeOS, since BeOS snprintf produces no output if the
! size argument is >= 0x3000000. */
! # if (HAVE_DECL__SNPRINTF || HAVE_SNPRINTF) && !defined __BEOS__
! # define USE_SNPRINTF 1
! # else
! # define USE_SNPRINTF 0
! # endif
# if HAVE_DECL__SNPRINTF
/* Windows. */
# define SNPRINTF _snprintf
