Re: [Newbie][idiot] Assistance with MSVC 6.0 and the olc patch

From: George Greer (greerga@circlemud.org)
Date: 08/06/01


On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, The Luthers (Dana and Todd) wrote:

>On behalf of the *MANY MANY* people who have read and valued the time
>spent in creating that documentation, and in the face of such
>frusteration, I'd like to say thank you.

Don't thank me. I didn't write any of it (yet).  Soon as we figure out what
format (LaTeX?) we want it to be in now and I go learn it.

>ObCircle:
>
>With the rip buf patch that George posted a while ago, there was a
>shift from using sprintf to snprintf. However, this is not something
>that is supported by the windows systems. Have you considered making a
>circle version of the snprintf, similar to the way you made a circle
>specific strn_cpy?

Daniel wants to put the BSD snprintf() in a snprintf.c file to link in if
we don't need it. I was thinking of adding one that behaved just like
sprintf() if you didn't have snprintf(). Sure you won't have the
buffer-checking behavior of the real thing, but the buffers should be
sufficiently large enough anyway.  My other alternative was using libiberty
from the GNU project for snprintf().

--
George Greer
greerga@circlemud.org

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