vfprintf() string precision type
Sean C. Farley
scf at FreeBSD.org
Sun Sep 16 18:39:04 PDT 2007
Xin LI noticed a warning in the code I wrote for setenv() where a
precision was provided with a string argument to warnx() (really
vfprintf()). The warning appearing on amd64 and not i386 showed that
precisions are always 32-bit.
Would it be better to change the precision handling to expect size_t?
My reasoning is that strlen() and sizeof both return size_t. It makes a
cast unnecessary for passing a value returned by either call as the
precision. Unfortunately, I could find nothing from SUSv3 that
specified what type the precision could be.
Sean
P.S. I am not on this list; please keep the Cc.
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