[RFC] PR6015, snprintf, glibc2.3 and all that...

[Benjamin Kosnik]

> 1- Which is *really* the 2.3 timeframe? One year? Two years? Can we 

I've been told < 6 months.

> 2- Also, what about non-glibc platforms?

Very good question.

> 3- Ok, let's suppose we have the support of glibc2.3... Is'nt the scheme 
> above "overkilling"?!? As Benjamin said, an "hard-wired" snprintf would 
> suffice for this purpose and would solve in one shot both the above 
> problems!

Well, yes.

> 4- What's wrong, then, with excerpting /right now/ some of snprintf GPL 
> code from glibc2.2, stripping it down to the essential and implementing 
> the "hard-wired" approach outlined by Benjamin?

Nothing. 

> 5- In case for some utterly mysterious legal reasons something is not 
> ok  with glibc (I cannot imagine what!) there are around nice, free 
> standing GPL implementations of snprintf, which would suffice for our 
> purposes, for instance: http://www.ijs.si/software/snprintf/

Right. Pick one, do a patch.......

-benjamin