On 5/26/09 5:12 PM, Alexander Spohr said: >> Never ever use sprintf for anything. > >If you use "%d" and know it will be an int? You know how many chars >you'll have at max, no buffer-overflow possible. (You might argue >here, that at some time we will habe 128-bit ints, but hey you should >recode your app then anyway or just have a buffer large enough to >handle that right at the start) > >And yes - you are right, use snprintf instead... int might become 256 >bit.
You can use sprintf safely if you're very careful, I suppose, but using snprintf is not harder and so much safer. sprintf is just not worth the risk. -- ____________________________________________________________ Sean McBride, B. Eng s...@rogue-research.com Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
