On 1 Feb 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> You mean that glib 2.0 changed the semantics of the returned value
> since 1.2.10?  And that instead of returning the amount of chars
> actually written (which is useful), it returns the amount of chars
> that would have been written if the buffer was of infinite length
> (which is generally useless)?

In short: yes.

<URL:http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-String-Utility-Functions.html#g-snprintf>

And actually the latter is not useless, it is the value needed in most
cases, because it is the amount of the memory to (re)alloc.

-- 
Tommi Vainikainen


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