2.5.6pre1 bombs on Sunos4 in popthelp.c on use of sprintf

[Dave Dykstra]

On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 10:24:04AM -0600, Dave Dykstra wrote:
> 2.5.6pre1 bombs on Sunos4 gcc with these errors
>     popt/popthelp.c: In function `singleOptionDefaultValue':
>     popt/popthelp.c:137: invalid operands to binary +
>     popt/popthelp.c:141: invalid operands to binary +
>     popt/popthelp.c:145: invalid operands to binary +
>     popt/popthelp.c:149: invalid operands to binary +
> because it's depending on sprintf to return the number of bytes written
> and that doesn't happen on Sunos4.

If nobody objects to the following patch, I'll put it in.  It's a little
slower but this is definitely not time-critical code.

- Dave


--- popt/popthelp.c.O	Tue Jan 14 13:02:47 2003
+++ popt/popthelp.c	Tue Jan 14 13:04:45 2003
@@ -134,19 +134,23 @@
     case POPT_ARG_VAL:
     case POPT_ARG_INT:
     {	long aLong = *((int *)opt->arg);
-	le += sprintf(le, "%ld", aLong);
+	sprintf(le, "%ld", aLong);
+	le += strlen(le);
     }	break;
     case POPT_ARG_LONG:
     {	long aLong = *((long *)opt->arg);
-	le += sprintf(le, "%ld", aLong);
+	sprintf(le, "%ld", aLong);
+	le += strlen(le);
     }	break;
     case POPT_ARG_FLOAT:
     {	double aDouble = *((float *)opt->arg);
-	le += sprintf(le, "%g", aDouble);
+	sprintf(le, "%g", aDouble);
+	le += strlen(le);
     }	break;
     case POPT_ARG_DOUBLE:
     {	double aDouble = *((double *)opt->arg);
-	le += sprintf(le, "%g", aDouble);
+	sprintf(le, "%g", aDouble);
+	le += strlen(le);
     }	break;
     case POPT_ARG_STRING:
     {	const char * s = *(const char **)opt->arg;
@@ -271,7 +275,8 @@
 		*le++ = '=';
 		if (negate) *le++ = '~';
 		/*@-formatconst@*/
-		le += sprintf(le, (ops ? "0x%lx" : "%ld"), aLong);
+		sprintf(le, (ops ? "0x%lx" : "%ld"), aLong);
+		le += strlen(le);
 		/*@=formatconst@*/
 		*le++ = ']';
 	    }	break;