[Python-Dev] PyOS_snprintf() / PyOS_vsnprintf()

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
> > While working on the warning patch for modsupport.c,
> > I've added two new APIs which hopefully make it easier for Python
> > to switch to buffer overflow safe [v]snprintf() APIs for error
> > reporting et al.
> >
> > The two new APIs are PyOS_snprintf() and
> > PyOS_vsnprintf() and work just like the standard ones in many
> > C libs. On platforms which have snprintf(), the native APIs are used,
> > on all other an emulation with snprintf() tries to do its best.
> >
> > Please try them out on your platform. If all goes well, I think
> > we should replace all sprintf() (without the n in the name)
> > with these new safer APIs.
> 
> It would be easier to test out the fallback implementation if there
> was a config option to enable it even on platforms that do have the
> native version.
>
> Or maybe (following the getopt example) we might consider always using
> our own code -- so it gets the maximum testing.

How about always enabling our version in the alpha cycle and then
reverting back to the native one in the betas ?

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