Problem with snprintf()

[J. Johnston]

Egor Duda wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Wednesday, 09 August, 2000 Chris Faylor cgf@cygnus.com wrote:
> 
> >>>So snprintf() should always add a terminating \0.
> >>
> >>And snprintf() may return -1 only in case of encoding error, not if the
> >>string exceeds `size'.  So that is answered as well, IMO.
> 
> CF> So, have we come up with a patch for this behavior?
> 
> i've posted one in http://sources.redhat.com/ml/newlib/2000/msg00183.html
> 
> i believe it'll make (v)snprintf C99-compliant
> 
> if there're no objections, will somebody kindly check it in?
> 
> Egor.            mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19

I posted a patch yesterday.  It fixes the problem plus it also handles the
case whereby size is 0 (writes nothing and allows a null pointer to be
passed).

-- Jeff J.