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Re: critique of gnulib - string allocation
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: critique of gnulib - string allocation |
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Sun, 08 Sep 2019 22:58:01 +0200 |
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Paul Eggert wrote:
> The GNU coding standards say to avoid arbitrary limits, and
> on 64-bit platforms we should avoid arbitrary 32-bit limits on the lengths of
> strings.
Well, then we need variants of the *printf functions that return an 'ssize_t'
instead of an 'int'.
Do you happen to know the opinion of the glibc people on this topic?
Bruno
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