Ben Allison wrote: > Microsoft provides a surprisingly good (but proprietary) API inside > strsafe.h.
All of which are completely useless from cross platform code. I remember looking at that stuff at some time and thinking that their API design was somewhat lacking in clarity or vision (to be gentle). > StringCchPrintfA can be substituted for snprintf but the return value > is different. Thats a big enough difference to make its use highly inconvenient. > A small wrapper function around > StringCchPrintfExA could get you enough information to emulate snprintf > well. Sigh, but why not just support the ISO C99 standard snprintf? > But sprintf_s might be good enough for the limited uses inside flac, as you > said. It is for current usage. I am concerned that all future usage of snprintf needs be aware of the differences between the ISO C99 version and the Microsoft version. I suspect the best way to avoid this is wrap both inside a flac specific API and only use the flac specific version. 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
