On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:06:41AM +0100, Arthur de Jong wrote: > On Sun, 2008-12-28 at 12:02 -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > I don't know whether these are also a problem in practice - but if so, > > using sprintf(buf + strlen(buf) [...]) is definitely wrong.
> I don't know if any of my code uses such a construct but why is that > wrong as long as [...] doesn't contain buf? That's not the context of this discussion; we were talking about buggy code that *did* use buf as one of the args to the format string. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org