From: Taylor Blau <ttaylorr@openai.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:37:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] trace2: tolerate failed timestamp formatting
Message-ID: <al4yrXXoZiHLwSvE@com-79390>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqzezlhgyo.fsf@gitster.g>

On Mon, Jul 20, 2026 at 07:29:51AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> writes:
>
> >> Would it make more sense to fix the xsnprintf()/libintl boundary and
> >> treat Trace2 reentrancy separately? I still can't explain why the
> >> allocation failed, so there may be another GfW-specific piece I’m
> >> missing.
> >
> > I think that your suggested change has merits and should be pursued.
> > I'll explore it a bit to confirm.
>
> That band-aid may be a good idea, but I would prefer not to see the
> conditional in a common source file like 'wrapper.c'.  Somewhere
> MinGW-specific would be more appropriate, would it not?

Yeah, to be clear, I do not think that putting the '#define' here in
'wrapper.c' is appropriate, and included it in my original email only to
demonstrate the shape of the proposed solution.

Thanks,
Taylor