Re: error reporting

[Paul Smith]

On Mon, 2014-04-07 at 21:26 -0700, Philip Guenther wrote:
> I am unable to reproduce this:

Based on the offer of MSVC project files I would guess Rob is running on
Windows.

I expect this is a result of the buggy snprintf()/vsnprintf()
implementations in the Windows MSVC compiler (well, by "buggy" I mean
not conforming to the ISO C99 standard, which is 15 years old now...)

I actually think that MSVC 2013 is supposed to fix this, because the
C++11 standard has moved up to incorporate a number of the C99 features
(C++03 only relied on C89) which is forcing Microsoft to finally
implement them.

As John mentions, I rewrote all that code since the 4.0 release to rely
only on features available in the C89 standard, which likely fixes this
issue as well.