Re: [Bug-gnulib] revised xvasprintf module

[Bruno Haible]

Oskar Liljeblad wrote:
> But how should it be handled - with some xalloc-die
> equivalent? Or by truncating the result?

I would say, with a fatal error message, like xalloc-die.

Truncating a string is almost always the wrong thing to do. Especially
in the presence of multibyte characters, where you have to be careful not
to truncate in the middle of a character.

Bruno