From: Joshua Jensen <jjensen@workspacewhiz.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:22:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/11] Remove va_copy at MSVC because there are va_copy.
Message-ID: <4A899FFD.3080607@workspacewhiz.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0908171840450.4991@intel-tinevez-2-302>

----- Original Message -----
From: Johannes Schindelin
Date: 8/17/2009 10:49 AM
> How about this instead?
>
> 	Work around Microsoft Visual C++ not having va_copy()
>
> 	In winansi.c, Git wants to know the length of the formatted string 
> 	so it can allocate enough space for it.  But Microsoft Visual C++
> 	does not have va_copy(), so we have to guess
I did not look at the surrounding code, but could Microsoft's C runtime 
extension _vscprintf, which returns the number of characters in the 
formatted string, be of use here?

Josh