[GRASS5] [bug #1140] (grass) Non-portable snprintf() used in several programs

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 11:05:03AM +0100, Glynn Clements wrote:
> Request Tracker wrote:
> 
> > It was also mentioned in the mailing list before that even on systems
> > that do provide snprintf(), the return value when an error occurs is
> > not standardised, so that is another reason for not relying on the
> > system library version.

> That still doesn't solve the problem of needing snprintf() in the
> first place. If we are going to rely upon a third-party library, we
> should probably look for one which provides asprintf().

We should figure out what third library to use on Irix
and publish a description for people on Irix.
I'm not sure that we should make GRASS completly use snprintf()
from a third party library for all cases.
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