[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [PATCH] _final_ *snprintf cleanup. (PR#774)

[Thue <thue@xxxxxxx>]

On Friday 18 May 2001 13:59, Gaute B Strokkenes wrote:
>The attached patch supercedes all of my previous patches, and does the
>following:
>
>  * Use an autoconf test rather than a runtime test to check if a
>    given vsnprintf() is suitable.
>
>  * Change vsnprintf() test to accept C89 as well C99 return value
>    semantics.
>
>  * Changed vsnprintf wrapper to have C89 return value semantics, even
>    if the underlying implementation is C99.
>
>  * Changed all uses of my_vsnprintf() and friends to expect C89
>    rather than C99 return values.
>
>The only drawback is that this makes it slighly harder to
>cross-compile Freeciv, though in practise I doubt that this is
>possible anyway.

You define a function AC_FUNC_VSNPRINTF. That should probably be 
FC_FUNC_VSNPRINTF like the other native freeciv functions.
Just curious, why not conform to the newer C99 standard?

(I only looked shortly at the patch)
-Thue