Christoph Terasa wrote: > Since MS refuses to support C99, the common practice is to use either > > sprintf_s: > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ce3zzk1k(v=VS.80).aspx > _snprintf_s: > http://msdn.microsoft.com/de-de/library/f30dzcf6(v=VS.80).aspx > > The former can be used as a drop-in replacement of snprintf via a > define, the latter takes an additional argument count which can limit > the bytes written to the buffer additionally.
Hmm, the first can be used as a drop-in replacement for many but not all uses of ISO C99 snprintf. For the uses in FLAC, it should be sufficient, we just have to be careful not to rely on the return value. > DO NOT use > _snprintf: > http://msdn.microsoft.com/de-de/library/2ts7cx93(v=vs.80).aspx > > since this does not NULL terminate if the length of the buffer is equal > to the given buffer size (or larger than), and this differs from the std > behaviour as stated at e.g. http://linux.die.net/man/3/snprintf Yes, now I remember, that one is horribly broken. Erik -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ _______________________________________________ flac-dev mailing list flac-dev@xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev
