Finally, thanks to Alexander, my pure Objective C solution is NSString *S = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:@"%i", i]; const char *text = [S UTF8String];
and no warning this time except that I should learn more about C Thanks Pierre 2009/5/26 Sean McBride <s...@rogue-research.com> > 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 > > > -- Blogs : http://bibliobs.nouvelobs.com/blog/jeux-litteraires http://pierre-berloquin.blogspot.com/ Développement durable des neurones par le jeu de réflexion www.crealude.net Sustainable development of neurones through mind games www.crealude.net/us Que fait-on pour les mal-codants ? _______________________________________________ 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
