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Subject: Re: snprintf
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 19:16:37 -0500 (EST)
From: "Alain Magloire" <alain AT qnx DOT com>
Cc: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
In-Reply-To: <3A07124A.E224EB52@bigfoot.com> from "Richard Dawe" at Nov 06, 2000 08:19:22 PM
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> 
> Hello.
> 
> Alain Magloire wrote:
> > 
> > Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > 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/.
> > 
> > I do not think it is since most of the exchange was not Cc:ed to
> > this list. You'll probably find the trivial v/snprintf implementations
> > but not the patched to make __putc() or fillbuffer overwrite
                                                     ^^^
                                                    not to
> > the buffer when the limit is reach.
> 
> I have the mail exchanges, I think. I can post a summary and put the
> patches in my "DJGPP dumpster"
> (http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/djgpp/ ), if that would help
> and Alain & Eli don't object to me quoting the private mail.

Not a problem.  The patches were trivial, IIRC it changes __putc or putc_raw()
for noop when the end of the string buffer(__IOSTR) was reach and when flush()
was calling filbuf(), something that should not be for _IOSTR buffers.

Sorry I did not have time to finishing it up, hopefully someone
with more freetimes could beat some sense into it.

-- 
au revoir, alain
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