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Re: [Bug-gnulib] revised xvasprintf module
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Oskar Liljeblad |
Subject: |
Re: [Bug-gnulib] revised xvasprintf module |
Date: |
Thu, 9 Sep 2004 13:12:43 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.6+20040818i |
On Wednesday, September 08, 2004 at 14:57, Bruno Haible wrote:
> > Here's the revised xvasprintf module.
>
> Thanks, I've added the new module, with some doc tweaks:
[..]
> In most cases, the programmer doesn't want to check the result against NULL.
> He can ensure easily that no EINVAL and no EILSEQ error occurs, but cannot
> protect himself against EOVERFLOW. Therefore I would be in favour of handling
> EOVERFLOW in the xvasprintf() function as well. What do you think?
Sounds all good to me. But how should it be handled - with some xalloc-die
equivalent? Or by truncating the result?
Regards,
Oskar Liljeblad (address@hidden)