[GRASS5] Re: G_fatal

[Andrea Aime]

"Edzer J. Pebesma" wrote:
> 
> Markus Neteler wrote:
> 
> > > according to the programmers manual, G_fatal is defined as
> > >
> > > int G_fatal_error(char *);
> > >
> > > but according to gisdefs.h, it is
> > >
> > > int G_fatal_error(char *,...);
> 
> The first one will usually require the programmer to sprintf to a
> buffer, which easily leads to buffer overflows. The second one could
> be implemented much more safely.
> --

I agree with Edzer, althought I still haven't seen a module
that uses the second one (but until now I only played with
raster/vector conversion modules and with s.voronoi/s.delaunay...
BTW, I nearly fixed/rewrited them, in the next few days I will send
them to Markus...). IMHO it would be better to update the manual :-)
Andrea Aime

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