Re: more improvements for mg

#1 (**permalink**) 02-18-2008, 07:50 AM

Sven Dehmlow wrote:
> size_t is usually typedef'ed as something unsigned, but snprintf may
> return signed integer values. That's why it's not very clever to use size_t
> here.
>
> /usr/src/sys/arch/i386/include/ansi.h:
> #define _BSD_SIZE_T_ unsigned int
>
> /usr/src/include/stddef.h:
> typedef _BSD_SIZE_T_ size_t;
>
> printf(3):
> int (!)
> snprintf(char *str, size_t size, const char *format, ...);
>
> or in pseudo-C:
> unsigned int != int
>
> Hope this helps on the way to enlightment ... ;-)

Yes I know. But sizeof() returns size_t. Suppose int has a range
from -128 to 127 and size_t from 0 to 255.

What will you do if sizeof() returns, say, 130...

You have to take that into account as well.

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