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Re: (fixed patch) "%E" formatting for the humans

On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 09:06:48PM -0500, Mumit Khan wrote:
>Corinna Vinschen <corinna.vinschen@cityweb.de> writes:
>> 
>> FormatMessage has an option, to allocate the needed buffer itself
>> (FORMAT_MESSAGE_ALLOCATE_BUFFER or similar). This buffer should
>> then be freed with LocalFree() after usage.
>> Would this be an alternative?
>
>That was what I had done at first, only to discover that it doesn't fit
>into the model used by small_vsprintf etc al very well (passed in pre
>allocated buffer, arbitrary number of formatting directives, etc make
>it impossible to inject a newly allocated buffer within). I'd welcome 
>any suggestions of course.

The small_vsprintf model is the vsprintf model.

In the case of %E, I believe that this is only actually used by strace
and api_fatal.  strace_printf has a 10,000 byte buffer, api_fatal uses a
4096 byte buffer.

I would welcome a patch if someone wants to modify cygwin to use the
vnsprintf model instead.

cgf