Re: [Bug-gnulib] How about a vasprintf()?

[Bruno Haible]

Simon Josefsson writes:
> I found this in GNU Mailutils, not sure where it comes from.
> Something for gnulib?

This code was also in gettext for some time. It is hopelessly out of
date:
  - Wrong return value when memory allocation fails.
  - Doesn't support format directives like 'F' or 'z' or 'ls'.
  - Doesn't support long doubles.
  - Doesn't support reordered arguments.
  - Allocates way too much memory in some cases.

This old code is safe to use only with a very limited set of format
strings.

If there is no objection, I'll add a complete rewrite of asprintf,
vasprintf, asnprintf, vasnprintf to gnulib. (Taken from GNU gettext,
of course :-)). It's a set of 10 files; probably I'll add them to a
separate subdirectory libasprintf or so, in order not to clutter up
the lib/ directory.

Bruno

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