Re: printf (_("...%zu..."), X) where X is of type size_t

[Paul Eggert]

address@hidden (Eric Blake) writes:

> When I wrote my suggestion, I was thinking more along the
> lines of a thin wrapper, whose sole job in life is to translate the
> format string into something that the system's vprintf can already
> handle, without ever unwrapping the va_args itself.

You might run out of memory generating the translated format string.
That wouldn't be a nice thing to do (particularly if the message
you're trying to print is "can't allocate 230 bytes" :-).