[Python-Dev] snprintf breaks build (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Fri, 04 Aug 2000 16:38:16 +1200 (NZST)

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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