Re: glibc's snprintf is a pig; fix or replace ?

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 11/03/2010 10:13 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Fixing it in glibc is not trivial.
> Handling %c, %s and %[xoiud] would be easy,
> but floating point can be tricky; for some values,
> you may need additional space for multiple-precision arithmetic
> to determine the precise width of the printed representation.
> While it'd be nice to have an all-around fix, even fixing it for
> integer and string formats would be a most welcome improvement.
> There are far fewer applications that care about floating point formats.

I don't think it's possible to fix it for floating-point.  But the 
behavior of glibc is not reasonable IMHO.

Paolo