Re: lynx-dev HTSprintf0 (was lynx 2.8.3dev.4 for Win32 patch)

[Kim DeVaughn]

On Mon, Jul 19, 1999, Klaus Weide (address@hidden) said:
|
| Btw. my libc6 has functions that already do the basically the same thing
| as HTSprintf0:
|
|        int asprintf(char **strp, const char *format, ...);
| and
|        int  vasprintf(char  **strp,  const  char *format, va_list
|        ap);
|
| I don't know how widespread they are or whether they are GNU inventions.
| If they are available on a system they should probably be faster.

A couple datapoints, FYI ...

They *are* available on FreeBSD (2.2.8-STABLE), but are NOT on either
of the linux's that I have access to:

 Red Hat Linux release 4.0 (Colgate) Kernel 2.0.18 on an i586

and

 GNU/Linux version 2.2.5-15smp

Don't seem to be very portable, given linux popularity.

/kim