On 8/5/24, Paul Eggert wrote:
If snprintf (buf, sizeof buf, ...) returns an integer I such that (0 <=
I < sizeof buf) then the snprintf worked, the contents of buf[0] through
buf[I] are valid, and buf[I] == '\0'. Otherwise snprintf didn't work and
buf's contents are indeterminate.
In practic
On Mon, 2024-08-05 at 14:26 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Good memory!
Just old :p :)
> GNU Make should either (a) not worry about porting to SunOS 4, (b)
> rewrite ar_member_touch to not use snprintf, or (c) import Gnulib's
> snprintf module which unfortunately is pretty heavyweight. I vote for
> From: Martin Dorey
> CC: "bug-make@gnu.org"
> Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2024 23:13:47 +
>
> "Beginning with the UCRT in Visual Studio 2015 and Windows 10, snprintf is no
> longer identical to _snprintf. The snprintf behavior is now C99 standard
> conformant. The difference is that if you run out
On 2024-08-05 16:13, Martin Dorey wrote:
"Beginning with the UCRT in Visual Studio 2015 and Windows 10, snprintf is no longer
identical to _snprintf. The snprintf behavior is now C99 standard conformant. The
difference is that if you run out of buffer, snprintf null-terminates the end of the
b
>> all systems providing correct
>> sprintf() return values these days? ISTR that some C runtime
>> implementations didn't correctly return the formatted length.
> 7th Edition Unix sprintf returned char *
Perhaps the buffer is always big enough here. If not, though, then the more
recent diffe
On 2024-08-05 12:22, Paul Smith wrote:
On Mon, 2024-08-05 at 01:59 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
The first three patches are minor cleanups.
Is it the case that we can rely on all systems providing correct
sprintf() return values these days? ISTR that some C runtime
implementations didn't correct
On Mon, 2024-08-05 at 01:59 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> The first three patches are minor cleanups.
Is it the case that we can rely on all systems providing correct
sprintf() return values these days? ISTR that some C runtime
implementations didn't correctly return the formatted length.
But mayb
