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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org,        ppluzhnikov@google.com
Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] Code cleanup: strcpy + strlen -> sprintf
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Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:08:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <20111019082833.GA8886@host1.jankratochvil.net> (Jan Kratochvil's	message of "Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:28:33 +0200")
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Jan> I am unfamiliar with gdbserver but there is no single use of snprintf while
Jan> 75 uses of sprintf.  Isn't it for some platform compatibility?

The gnulib page is informative:

http://www.gnu.org/s/hello/manual/gnulib/snprintf.html

Tom