PCH merge: bootstrap failure, gengtype consumes all file descriptors

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jun 12, 2002, "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu> wrote:

>> From: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com> 
>> 
>> The glibc obstack_printf knows stdio internals, so we can't just steal
>> it, but I think a portable implementation should be doable.  It's easy
>> on a system with C99-compliant snprintf, and somewhat harder
>> elsewhere.
>> zw

> It should be easy to write an snprintf.c replacement in libiberty
> using a combination of vasprintf, strncpy, free.  Right?

Except that vasprintf is not exactly as portable as one might wish.

We might want to adopt Gary V. Vaughan's snprintfv (*) for that but,
well, it's a lot of code, so I'm not sure it's worth the trouble.

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