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  • From: "Jonas Benjaminsson" <jonas.benjaminsson AT infogate.se>
  • To: "TDS Development Group" <freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Non portable code
  • Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 15:04:39 +0200


Hi all

I'm porting FreeTDS to Windows and it's going well.

(Brian or James: How should I commit the changes
I make, by sending you the diffs or by accessing
the CVS directly?)

But...

When I find code like the one below I shiver.

Ok, it's an easy aproach but will never compile
on a non Unix system. And what about the speed?

Well, just wanted to share my thoughts.


/Jonas Benjaminsson




The code was found in asprintf.c

FILE *fp;
int len;
char *buf;

*ret = NULL;
if ((fp = fopen("/dev/null", "w")) == NULL)
return -1;
len = vfprintf(fp, fmt, ap);
if (fclose(fp) != 0)
return -1;
if (len < 0)
return len;
if ((buf = malloc(len + 1)) == NULL)
return -1;
vsprintf(buf, fmt, ap);
*ret = buf;
return len;









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