Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 08:50:36 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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> Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 16:06:21 -0500 (EST)
> From: "Alain Magloire" <alain AT qnx DOT com>
> 
> Yes, I forgot about that.  It was change somewhat to comply
> to C99 snprintf/vsnprintf semantics,  I've sent the docs and patches
> to Eli, but that was along time ago.  It was suppose to be
> in V2.03 ? or something.

No, it was not meant to be part of v2.03, since it came late, and
needed some non-trivial work.

> The good thing is that it reused
> DJGPP stdio guts but some small cosmetic changes was supposed
> to be done on _doprnt() or __putc() to make it aware of the
> size of the buffer, after that writing v/snprintf() was trivial,
> a few lines of code.
> 
> Sorry, I could not find trace of the patches in my $HOME.

It's on my todo to get that done, if no one else does it before.  Your
patches (and the ensuing discussions) are all available via searching
the DJGPP mail archives, http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/mail-archives/.

> In any case the stdio guts (_doprnt() and friends) should
> pay attention not to overflow its buffer.  Once that is
> done vsnpritf is trivial and maybe other things can be added.

Yes, this small issue was the reason why the function is not yet part
of the CVS.