Re: [Freeciv-Dev] Requiring glib...

[Daniel Sjolie <deepone@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 1999-05-17 23:04:50, Daniel Burrows wrote:
>   glib has some incredibly useful utility functions, such as hash tables,
> guaranteed-to-work versions of 'standard' functions that are broken on some
> systems (like *alloc and *printf), a plugin system, and lots of other stuff 
> that
> doesn't spring to mind (I mainly use the hash tables and lists).

An example that does spring to mind is:
gint g_vsnprintf(gchar *string, gulong n, gchar const *format, va_list args);
'A safer form of the standard vsprintf() function. The output is
guaranteed to not exceed n characters, so it is easy to ensure
that a buffer overflow cannot occur.'

/Daniel

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