On Sat, 24 Aug 2024 05:12:42 GMT, Julian Waters <jwat...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> snprintf has been available for all officially and unofficially supported 
>> compilers for Windows, Visual Studio since version 2015 and gcc since, well, 
>> forever. snprintf is conforming to C99 since the start when compiling using 
>> gcc, and 2015 when using Visual Studio. Since it conforms to C99 and 
>> provides better semantics than _snprintf, and is not compiler specific, we 
>> should use it in most places where we currently use _snprintf. This makes 
>> JDK code where this is used more robust due to the null terminating 
>> guarantee of snprintf. Since most of the changes are extremely simple, I've 
>> included all of them hoping to get this all done in one shot. The only 
>> places _snprintf is not replaced is places where I'm not sure whether the 
>> code is ours or not (As in, imported source code for external libraries). 
>> Note that the existing checks in place for the size of the characters 
>> written still work, as the return value of snprintf works mostly the same as 
>> _snprintf. The only difference is the nu
 ll terminating character at the end and the returning of the number of written 
characters if the buffer was terminated early, as seen here: 
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/c-runtime-library/reference/snprintf-snprintf-snprintf-l-snwprintf-snwprintf-l?view=msvc-170
>> 
>> Reviews Required: 2 for HotSpot, jdk.hotspot.agent, and jdk.jdwp.agent, 1 
>> for awt and jdk.accessibility, 1 for java.base, 1 for security, 1 for 
>> jdk.management(?)
>
> Julian Waters has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a 
> merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes 
> brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains five additional 
> commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - Merge branch 'master' into snprintf
>  - Change copyright years and formatting
>  - Revert Standard Integer type rewrite
>  - USe os::snprintf in HotSpot
>  - Obliterate most references to _snprintf in the Windows JDK

Marked as reviewed by jpai (Reviewer).

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PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20153#pullrequestreview-2258410435

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