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Diffstat (limited to 'intl/vasnprintf.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | intl/vasnprintf.h | 23 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/intl/vasnprintf.h b/intl/vasnprintf.h index 65f1bc1..e67b88d 100644 --- a/intl/vasnprintf.h +++ b/intl/vasnprintf.h @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ /* vsprintf with automatic memory allocation. - Copyright (C) 2002-2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + Copyright (C) 2002-2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as published @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software - Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, + Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */ #ifndef _VASNPRINTF_H @@ -48,7 +48,24 @@ extern "C" { If successful, return the address of the string (this may be = RESULTBUF if no dynamic memory allocation was necessary) and set *LENGTHP to the number of resulting bytes, excluding the trailing NUL. Upon error, set - errno and return NULL. */ + errno and return NULL. + + When dynamic memory allocation occurs, the preallocated buffer is left + alone (with possibly modified contents). This makes it possible to use + a statically allocated or stack-allocated buffer, like this: + + char buf[100]; + size_t len = sizeof (buf); + char *output = vasnprintf (buf, &len, format, args); + if (output == NULL) + ... error handling ...; + else + { + ... use the output string ...; + if (output != buf) + free (output); + } + */ extern char * asnprintf (char *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp, const char *format, ...) __attribute__ ((__format__ (__printf__, 3, 4))); extern char * vasnprintf (char *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp, const char *format, va_list args) |