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Re: printf (_("...%zu..."), X) where X is of type size_t
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: printf (_("...%zu..."), X) where X is of type size_t |
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Fri, 30 Sep 2005 21:40:53 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
address@hidden (Eric Blake) writes:
> When I wrote my suggestion, I was thinking more along the
> lines of a thin wrapper, whose sole job in life is to translate the
> format string into something that the system's vprintf can already
> handle, without ever unwrapping the va_args itself.
You might run out of memory generating the translated format string.
That wouldn't be a nice thing to do (particularly if the message
you're trying to print is "can't allocate 230 bytes" :-).