Sender: bill AT taniwha DOT tssc DOT co DOT nz Message-ID: <36AEE0B2.20D137A4@taniwha.tssc.co.nz> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 22:47:30 +1300 From: Bill Currie X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.0 i486) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com CC: Andris Pavenis Subject: Re: Problem with FSDB (patch included) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Andris Pavenis wrote: > > > static void > > redraw (int first) > > { > > ! char *buf = alloca (8192); > > Isn't the length of the symbol known somehow at this point? If so, > why not use that length explicitly? Wouldn't it be better to run around fixing all the sprintf calls to limit the lenght of the symbol printed? Bill -- Leave others their otherness.