On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 06:08:43PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> or, as translate.google.com says:
>
> > I further noted that the b-field is not displayed correctly.
> > Either g_snprintf broken, or we are unable to both the
> > function to use.
> > The string is made from 16x% .2 x + spaces together what
> > My calculations of a maximum length of 144 characters + null byte
> > follows.
> > therefore I have the string variable to 145 high and use again
> > sprintf. here the patch to do so.
>
> So what was g_snprintf() doing that was wrong? (The second argument
> was correct in the calls - the total length of the buffer should be
> passed, as that length includes the terminating null byte.) And what
> version of GLib was he using?
The problem seems to be that only the last two characters are shown instead
of the full length string. A problem with g_snprintf may be that it
doesn't like to use a rhs argument as its lhs result. sprintf supports
that.
ciao
Joerg
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