[Python-Dev] snprintf breaks build

[Greg Ewing]

Moshe Zadka:

> (Tidbit: since sizeof(long) measures in bytes, and %d prints in decimals,
> then a buffer of length sizeof(long) is enough to hold a decimal
> represntation of a long).

Pardon? I think you're a bit out in your calculation there!

3*sizeof(long) should be enough, though (unless some weird C
implementation measures sizes in units of more than 8 bits).

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