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

[jw schultz]

On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 09:28:26PM -0600, Albert Chin wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 03:28:04PM -0800, jw schultz wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 11:20:43AM -0600, Dave Dykstra wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > It is a bit ugly but i don't have a problem with the
> > performance here.
> > 
> > I'd be concerned about someone not knowing about the Sunos4
> > limitation messing with this though.  At a minimum this
> > needs comments.  Even better would be if we can manage a way
> > to conditionally have our own sprintf.  I've a vague nagging
> > that it can be done but can't recall how.
> 
> http://daniel.haxx.se/trio/

Thanks, but i wasn't meaning to have our own full blown
sprintf but something more along the lines of having the
header define a sprintf that would call the real thing and
then return strlen.  But as i look at in now i see the
varargs problem would get in the way.

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