format idiot checks

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From: Roland Roberts
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 1990 08:32

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GNU Emacs 18.55 on vax-vms

Try (format "%90d" 24).  The result is an "Improperly handled
condition, Image Exit Forced" followed by register dump.  I think the
origin of the problem lies in doprnt.c which uses a temporary buffer
for output from sprintf.  The tmpbuf is declared as `char tmpbuf[80]'
which seems a bit small, particularly since the temporary buffer used
in print.c is 300 characters.

roland

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From: rbr4@UHURA.CC.ROCHESTER.EDU (Roland Roberts)
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Subject: format idiot checks
Summary: format will accept stupid field sizes that crash emacs
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