From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#8435: misuse of error ("...%d...", ...) on 64-bit hosts Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2011 22:28:50 +0300 Message-ID: <83sjtrrzpp.fsf@gnu.org> References: <4D9CC60D.2090301@cs.ucla.edu> <4D9D68D8.6060200@cs.ucla.edu> <8339ltvrok.fsf@gnu.org> <4D9E21FB.70802@cs.ucla.edu> <83vcypt8zf.fsf@gnu.org> <4D9F9B74.6050908@cs.ucla.edu> <83d3kvubzp.fsf@gnu.org> <4DA0A448.7000203@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1302377850 3101 80.91.229.12 (9 Apr 2011 19:37:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 19:37:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 8435@debbugs.gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 09 21:37:25 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q8dyH-0005He-3C for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Apr 2011 21:37:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56007 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q8dyG-0003ki-Ig for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Apr 2011 15:37:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59016 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q8dyC-0003kT-Fp for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Apr 2011 15:37:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q8dyB-0006sI-B2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Apr 2011 15:37:20 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:48573) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q8dyB-0006sE-9S for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Apr 2011 15:37:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q8dt4-0002Xy-D6; Sat, 09 Apr 2011 15:32:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2011 19:32:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 8435 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 8435-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B8435.13023774659722 (code B ref 8435); Sat, 09 Apr 2011 19:32:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 8435) by debbugs.gnu.org; 9 Apr 2011 19:31:05 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q8ds8-0002Wl-Vl for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 09 Apr 2011 15:31:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q8ds2-0002WC-1Q for 8435@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 09 Apr 2011 15:31:03 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LJE00500GUJ8V00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for 8435@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 09 Apr 2011 22:30:50 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.239.68]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LJE004Y9GVDZP50@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Sat, 09 Apr 2011 22:30:50 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <4DA0A448.7000203@cs.ucla.edu> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2011 15:32:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:45717 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2011 11:24:08 -0700 > From: Paul Eggert > 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)?