Re: snprintf.c bugs
Doug Kaufman <[email protected]>
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On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
> snprintf.c is horrible. The floating-point formatting is an utter
> kludge, and a large number of bugs are lurking there. Still, it's
> better than nothing, and its bare-bones floating-point support seems
> to be sufficient to satisfy Wget's needs. Furthermore, snprintf is
> still not as ubiquitous as one would like.
I was just curious. Wouldn't it be easier to incorporate one of
the portable snprintf implementations available on the web, such
as Mark Martinec's version (which is licensed under GPL)? See:
"http://www.ijs.si/software/snprintf/". Are there advantages to a
wget-specific snprintf?
Doug
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