From: Luke Lu <git@vicaya.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:01:50 GMT
Subject: Re: Trying to get GIT running on SCO OpenServer
Message-ID: <3213B93E-42FF-4D63-A3A4-BD742630CEA1@vicaya.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0801231846540.2803@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Jan 23, 2008, at 6:50 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>
>> That's what va_copy() is for.
>
> Well, anybody who has such an old setup that they have a broken  
> vsnprintf,
> I'd expect they don't have va_copy() either. It's C99, I think  
> (although
> there were obviously implementations of it before that).

I wonder what's the downside of just using a native format  
implementation like the one in Vstr[1] or bstring[2]?

strbuf_addf would be faster and immune to the buggy/outdated host  
*sprintf implementations.

__Luke

[1]: http://www.and.org/vstr/
[2]: http://bstring.sourceforge.net/