Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] vsprintf.c cleanups | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:34:27 +0100 |
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On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 07:28 -0500, Brian Gerst wrote: > Horst von Brand wrote: > > Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org> said: > > > >>- Make sprintf call vsnprintf directly > >>- use INT_MAX for sprintf and vsprintf > > > > > > This is the size limit on what is written. 4GiB sounds a bit extreme... > > Sprintf has no limit, which is why it's generally bad to use it. I just > replaced an open coded ((~0U)>>1) value with the equivalent INT_MAX.
I can see the point of using PAGE_SIZE instead; and if someone really wants more than that, he/she should use snprintf with a specified size....
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