Mark Gilbert wrote:
> 
> Greetings.
> As you know well, AbiWord uses psiconv for psion impexp.  AbiWord-HEAD
> no longer requires it (only the psion plugin).  AbiWord-STABLE
> (currently ABI-1-0-0-STABLE) does, and that won't change.  Being stable
> co-maintainer, release coordinator, and build engineer, I'm thrice
> concerned that unix variants which lack native snprintf cannot build abi
> without third party snprintf which has proven to be unreliable at best.
> 
> I've cleaned out all the snprintf from abi/, but psiconv's error.c still
> poses a problem.  I thought (well, dom thought, and I concur) I'd go to
> you before implementing some adhoc quickfix.
> Help appreciated.

Hi Mark,

I am not so sure I understand your problem.

Are you really suggesting not to use snprintf, but the old sprintf instead?
While every security-minded programmer is avoiding sprintf because of
string overflow problems? Or are referring to vsnprintf, the variant
which can take a variable number of parameters? 

Thanks,
  Frodo

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