[Fribidi-discuss] Building fribidi on OSF1 alpha: snprintf

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Omer Zak wrote:
> Hello Nadav,
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote:
[snip]
> > Why not use snprintf, and if snprintf is not available (you ARE using
> > autoconf, aren't you?) #define it to be sprintf?
> 
> Except for a minor detail, I wholeheartedly agree with this suggestion.
> The minor detail is that support for macros with variable number of
> arguments is needed.  gcc supports this, but some other platforms may not
> support this.
> 
> FriBidi does use autoconf.
> 
> The best solution to the problem is to find source code which implements
> snprintf in terms of vsprintf (and varargs macros).  Then have autoconf
> add this snprintf implementation (preferably with a warning written in
> bright red blood on the display) if the system doesn't support snprintf.

FriBidi uses snprintf just in fribidi_create_*.f which are not part of 
the library, and rarely used, just before making fribidi.  And I have 
replaced them with really safe sprintfs. Don't worry about it ;-).




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