Re: [PATCH] alpha: Replace sprintf()/strcpy() with scnprintf()/strscpy()

[Al Viro]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2025 at 01:40:11PM +0200, Thorsten Blum wrote:
> Replace sprintf() with the safer variant scnprintf() and use its return
> value instead of calculating the string length again using strlen().
> 
> Use strscpy() instead of the deprecated strcpy().

FWIW, an idiomatic variant would be
        size = snprintf(NULL, 0, <....>);
        buffer = <allocate size + 1 bytes>
        if succeeded
                snprintf(buffer, size + 1, <....>);