[Python-Dev] test_builtin failing? or just 64-bit platforms (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Fri, 30 Nov 2001 22:01:24 -0500

I don't know what snprintf does when there's not enough room, but I think you just showed us what it does on Tru64 .

Hm, snprintf is supposed to truncate the result, but it seems that here it refused to do anything. Maybe PyOS_snprintf should be a wrapper that checks the return value of snprintf? I noticed that none of the recently checked-in PyOS_snprintf calls have their return value checked, and I think it's better to leave it that way (since in many cases we really don't know what to do instead) -- maybe PyOS_snprintf should even return void (or does it already?).

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