On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 07:28 -0500, Brian Gerst wrote:
> Horst von Brand wrote:
> > Brian Gerst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > 
> >>- Make sprintf call vsnprintf directly
> >>- use INT_MAX for sprintf and vsprintf
> > 
> > 
> > This is the size limit on what is written. 4GiB sounds a bit extreme...
> 
> Sprintf has no limit, which is why it's generally bad to use it.  I just 
> replaced an open coded ((~0U)>>1) value with the equivalent INT_MAX.

I can see the point of using PAGE_SIZE instead; and if someone really
wants more than that, he/she should use snprintf with a specified
size....



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