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From: karl@haddock.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.std.c
Subject: Re: vsprintf considered dangerous
Message-ID: <3312@haddock.ISC.COM>
Date: 4 Apr 88 20:49:49 GMT
References: <36@lotus.UUCP> <1219@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
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In article <1219@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> roland@rtsg.lbl.gov (Roland McGrath) writes:
>[The GNU C library has snprintf() and vsnprintf()]

This problem came up some time ago in this newsgroup, and I thought I heard it
said that X3J11 recognized the need for a "safe" sprintf() and would be adding
snprintf() to the ANSI library.  Whatever happened to that proposal?

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint
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