Re: [HACKERS] snprintf causes regression tests to fail

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> writes:
> > > Tom Lane wrote:
> > >> Does it help if you flip the order of the snprintf and vsnprintf
> > >> functions in snprintf.c?
> > 
> > > Yes, it fixes the problem and I have applied the reordering with a
> > > comment.
> > 
> > Fascinating.
> > 
> > > I will start working on fixing the large fmtpar allocations now.
> > 
> > Quite honestly, this code is not worth micro-optimizing because it
> > is fundamentally broken.  See my other comments in this thread.
> 
> I am working on something that just counts the '%' characters in the
> format string and allocates an array that size.
> 
> > Can we find a BSD-license implementation that follows the spec?
> 
> I would think NetBSD would be our best bet.  I will download it and take
> a look.

Oops, I remember now that NetBSD doesn't support it. I think FreeBSD does.

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