Re: two questions about GDB coding standards

[Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>]

   Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 05:51:20 -0400
   From: Wu Zhou <woodzltc@cn.ibm.com>

   Quoting Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:

   > > Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 11:13:21 -0400
   > > From: Wu Zhou <woodzltc@cn.ibm.com>
   > > 
   > > 1. In section 13.4.2(memory management), it is said that gdb uses the 
   > > string function xstrdup and the print function xasprintf.  But I saw 
   > > in the source codes that most places use sprintf instead.
   > 
   > This is just a matter of converting the uses of sprintf into safer
   > code using xstrdup, xasprintf, xsprintf, etc.  Volunteers are welcome.

   I'd like to contribute.  But running splint against GDB source tree, I
   find over 230 usages of sprintf.  If the conversion depends completely
   on hand work, the workload might be quite big.  Is there any method to
   achieve this more quickly?  to say, a script to handle it automatically,
   or any others?  

I'm afraid not; but hey you don't have to do all of them ;-).  Start
with the ones in code that you're a bit familliar with, and see where
you end up.  Even if you only convert 10% it is very useful.

Cheers,

Mark