Re: [HACKERS] snprintf causes regression tests

Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:39:19 -0500 (EST)

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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> writes:
> > I am wondering if we should just process long long args and %$ args,
> > and pass everything else to the native snprintf.
> 
> AFAICS this is a non-starter --- how will you construct the call to
> snprintf?  Or even vsnprintf?  C doesn't provide the tools you need
> to make it happen.

Couldn't you spin through the varargs and reconstruct a new one?
Is there no way to create a va_arg va_list structure in C?

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