Re: printfs in str.c

[Ben Pfaff]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> Ought we not replace most/all of the *printf functions in
> src/libpspp/str.c with things from gnulib ?

I don't think gnulib checks for the particular problem that
nsprintf()/spprintf() tries to work around, which is that some
old systems' sprintf() routines do not return the correct value.

Arguably, we could just assume the proper return values these
days.  The C standard came out in 1989, so vendors have had about
17 years to fix their libraries.
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