Re: g_*printf() (Was: gtk+-1.1.6 report)

[Aaron Digulla <digulla wi-pc44 fh-konstanz de>]

Quoting Andreas Tille (tille@physik.uni-halle.de):

> > And g_snprintf, cuz it's always available and doesn't hurt to be safe.  :)
> > Even malloc'd strings can overflow sometimes, given the "right" input.
> I would like to suggest
>
>    gchar *g_printf_new(gchar const *fmt, ...)
>
> which returns a pointer to a string with apropriate length.
> In my humble opinion this is a very often needed thing.

Along these lines, I'd suggest a "out-of-memory" hook. The standard hook
should abort the program. The reason behind this is that the program should
print a meaningful error when it runs out of memory but most people
don't want to add a check after every invokation of g_printf_new().
(and that should be g_sprintf_new() :-)

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Author of XDME, ResTrackLib, CInt.		       <http://www.aros.org/>
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