Re: lynx-dev lynx 2.8.3dev.4 for Win32 patch

[T.E.Dickey]

> 
> On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Leonid Pauzner wrote: 
>  
> > 3) a lot of new fixed buffer operations were added with WIN_EX and SH_EX, 
> > perhaps most of sprintf/etc. should be replaced with safe HTSprintf/0 
> > and so on according to current lynx style. 
>  
> Except perhaps if the code gets executed often.  HTSprintf/0 has overhead, 
> in some places it should probably be avoided. 

some of those are places we can optimize by allocating a buffer of the
appropriate size (using HTSprintf/0 for one character at a time is not a
Good Thing, but buffer overflows are not either).
 
>    Klaus 


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