Re: [PATCH 1/3] add git_psprintf helper function

> On 02/16/2017 03:28 AM, Maxim Moseychuk wrote:
> > There are a number of places in the code where we call
> > xsnprintf(), with the assumption that the output will fit into
> > the buffer. If the buffer is small, then git die.
> > In many places buffers have compile-time size, but generated string
> > depends from current system locale (gettext)and can have size
> > greater the buffer.
> > Just run "LANG=ru_RU.UTF8 git bisect start v4.9 v4.8"
> > on linux sources - it impossible.
> > 
> > git_psprintf is similar to the standard C sprintf() function
> > but safer, since it calculates the maximum space required
> > and allocates memory to hold the result.
> > The returned string should be freed with free() when no longer needed.
> 
> If I understand this correctly, xstrfmt (in strbuf.h) should already do what
> you need, so you do not need a new function.