Re: my status

[Ben Pfaff]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> See the earlier discussion about list.q --- I think in that particular
> case (and possibly in any others) the best thing to do would be to
> truncate the string to fit the buffer.  Anyone who generates tables
> using rediculously long strings is asking for trouble.

That might be a reasonable thing to do.

I had occasion to look at list.q in a little more detail
recently, though, and I think that in fact it should be changed
to not allocate its buffers in such a stupid way.  In fact, it
looks like most or all users of nsprintf() or spprintf() should
really be using `struct string' these days.
-- 
Ben Pfaff 
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