Eric Blake wrote:
> I noticed a copy-n-paste error from vasprintf.h, so I installed this trivial
> fix:
>
> /* Write formatted output to a string dynamically allocated with malloc().
> - If the memory allocation succeeds, store the address of the string in
> - *RESULT and return the number of resulting bytes, excluding the trailing
> - NUL. Upon [ENOMEM] memory allocation error, call xalloc_die.
> + Upon [ENOMEM] memory allocation error, call xalloc_die.
> On some other error
> - [EOVERFLOW] resulting string length is > INT_MAX,
Well, this loses the info what is the return value of the function.
It's not hard to guess, but you have to guess. I installed this fix:
--- xvasprintf.h 28 Jun 2006 14:00:22 -0000 1.3
+++ xvasprintf.h 28 Jun 2006 16:22:27 -0000
@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@
extern "C" {
#endif
-/* Write formatted output to a string dynamically allocated with malloc().
- Upon [ENOMEM] memory allocation error, call xalloc_die.
+/* Write formatted output to a string dynamically allocated with malloc(),
+ and return it. Upon [ENOMEM] memory allocation error, call xalloc_die.
On some other error
- [EOVERFLOW] resulting string length is > INT_MAX,
- [EINVAL] invalid format string,
Bruno
