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Re: Building 64-bit version of ncurses on Solaris 8


From: Thomas E. Dickey
Subject: Re: Building 64-bit version of ncurses on Solaris 8
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 14:52:55 -0500 (EST)

On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Albert Chin wrote:

> > that's possible (though it might take some rework).  I could always make a
> > fallback working about as well as safe_sprintf, but have been reluctant to 
> > do
> > so because it's a lot of code for a special case.  Someone else reported 
> > this
> > last month and simply ifdef'd the code to say it fails.
>
> If we contribute a patch to use the trio library, will you consider
> it? It is kinda overkill but we've added it to other packages without
> problems.

I don't know - just using the library would conflict with the other
functions, right?  Actually, just 5 minutes or so ago, I was
contemplating just writing a vsscanf -- less aggravation than another
patch that someone was prompting me for.  (If I don't get sucked into
that one, I may spend this evening writing one,).

otoh, if the library wouldn't conflict, it might be useful to provide a
fallback for snprintf where I've been using safe_sprintf (which I don't
much like since it runs slowly - there are a couple of people who use it
anyway).  That would require some testing, though.

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