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Re: Trying to get GIT running on SCO OpenServer

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Jan 24, 2008, 00:25 UTC
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
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> FWIW we had the same problem in MinGW, and Hannes Sixt solved it:
>
> http://repo.or.cz/w/git/mingw/j6t.git?a=commitdiff;h=b8e84a68f01a2386b2071e1bdc8e24de809a3f6d
>
> That might give you an idea how to solve the issue.  Maybe you even make a 
> git patch out of it?  With a Makefile variable BROKEN_SNPRINTF=YesPlease, 
> maybe?

Hmmm. Looking at that change makes me wonder if that solution is Kosher. The value of the va_list you pass to vsnprintf() is unspecified after the call.

It may be Ok as mingw-only "compatibility wrapper", but I think you have to be a bit careful. It is not a general solution for any BROKEN_SNPRINTF.

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