From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 8435@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8435: misuse of error ("...%d...", ...) on 64-bit hosts
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2011 22:28:50 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83sjtrrzpp.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DA0A448.7000203@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2011 11:24:08 -0700
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> CC: 8435@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> it's wasteful to spend time maintaining a buggy near-copy of
> vsnprintf. It's better software engineering practice to use
> vsnprintf instead.
How about if we take vsnprintf from some library, e.g. glibc or
gnulib, and add to it code to support the two features that were at
the time added to doprnt (i.e., avoid splitting a multi-byte
character, and convert a multi-byte sequence to a wide character when
%c conversion is used)?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-09 19:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-06 19:59 bug#8435: misuse of error ("...%d...", ...) on 64-bit hosts Paul Eggert
[not found] ` <handler.8435.B.130211997010029.ack@debbugs.gnu.org>
2011-04-07 7:33 ` Paul Eggert
2011-04-07 12:29 ` Andy Moreton
2011-04-07 18:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-07 20:43 ` Paul Eggert
2011-04-08 8:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-08 23:34 ` Paul Eggert
2011-04-09 7:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-09 18:24 ` Paul Eggert
2011-04-09 18:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-09 19:39 ` Paul Eggert
2011-04-09 20:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-10 3:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-10 5:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-11 1:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-11 2:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-10 17:03 ` Paul Eggert
2011-04-09 19:28 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-04-09 19:43 ` Paul Eggert
2011-04-08 23:37 ` Paul Eggert
2011-04-25 0:59 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-04-25 6:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
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