On Mon, 17 Nov 2014, Phil Dibowitz wrote: >>>> Surprisingly, C++ still doesn't have any built-in string formatting >>>> mechanisms. There are a few libraries out there, but it seems like >>>> overkill to >>>> add something like that. I was thinking about something like this (not yet >>>> tested) to replace our sprintf's: >>> >>> Shouldn't simply moving to snprintf() solve the problem? I've been replacing >>> sprintf() with snprintf() as I hit them, but clearly there's more. >>> >>> [disclaimer, I haven't dug through the stacktrace, I'm purely replying >>> to your comment about sprintf] >> >> Yes, technically it would - but we'd still have to pick some arbitrary >> size for a buffer that we hope is large enough. Then we'd have to check >> the return value of snprintf and if we ran out of space, we'd probably >> have to exit abnormally anyway. That's really what I was trying to work >> around with my proposed format_string function - figure out the buffer >> size automatically and handle it. > > That's fair. I'm cool with that. Not terribly efficient, but that's not > exactly our goal either. :) > > I wonder how often do we not know the size of the string. Only in the HTTP > handling, right?
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