Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] snprintf causes regression

[email protected] Thu, 10 Mar 2005 20:29:49 -0500 (EST)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.general,gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.win32
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> writes:
>> > Please see my posting about using a macro for snprintf.  If the
>> current
>> > implementation of snprintf is enough for our existing translation
>> users
>> > we probably don't need to add anything more to it because snprintf
>> will
>> > not be exported to client applications.
>>
>> The CVS-tip implementation is fundamentally broken and won't work even
>> for our internal uses.  I've not wasted time complaining about it
>> because I thought we were going to replace it.  If we can't find a
>> usable replacement then we're going to have to put a lot of effort
>> into fixing what's there.  On the whole I think the effort would be
>> better spent importing someone else's solution.
>
> Oh, so our existing implementation doesn't even meet our needs. OK.

Wasn't the issue about odd behavior of the Win32 linker choosing the wrong
vnsprintf?

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