Re: ANSI-C/GCC/LCLINT snprintf() ??

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From: Florian Große-Coosmann
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 00:00

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Efraim Mostrom wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Short code for exemple:
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> int main(int * argc, char * argv[]) {
>     char *buf[1024];
>     if ((snprintf(buf,1024,"string : %s string2 : %s",argv[1],argv[2])) == -1) {
>             fprintf(stderr,"main : error while snprintf() \n");
>             exit(1);
>     }
>     fprintf(stdout,"buf = %s\n",buf);
>     return 0;
> }
Is this a typo while building this example?
You wrote "char *buf[1024]" in case of "char buf[1024]". snprintf is defined
at least in glibc 2.0 but returns correct values only in version 2.1+.
The return of the error value -1 should work in all cases.

Florian
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From: Florian Große-Coosmann <florian@grosse-coosmann.de>
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