Re: sprintf warning in libstdc++

["J.D. Bronson" <jbronson_(_at_)_wixb_(_dot_)_com>]

At 03:10 PM 3/14/2005, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> libc is now compiled to warn about such things.
>
> Yes, there is a library like that included in OpenBSD, used by a few
> rare applications here and there..


At the risk of being flamed...I noticed that postfix also reveals this 
warning as well...


<snip>
[src/scache]
gcc -DUSE_TLS -I/usr/include/openssl -DUSE_SASL_AUTH -I/usr/include 
-I/usr/local/include/sasl -DHAS_PCRE -I/usr/local/include 
-I/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.3/include -DSNAPSHOT  -O2 -I. -I../../include 
-DOPENBSD3 -c scache.c
gcc -DUSE_TLS -I/usr/include/openssl -DUSE_SASL_AUTH -I/usr/include 
-I/usr/local/include/sasl -DHAS_PCRE -I/usr/local/include 
-I/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.3/include -DSNAPSHOT  -O2 -I. -I../../include 
-DOPENBSD3 -o scache scache.o ../../lib/libmaster.a ../../lib/libglobal.a 
../../lib/libutil.a -L/usr/local/lib -R/usr/local/lib -lsasl2 -L/usr/lib 
-R/usr/lib -lssl -lcrypto -L/usr/local/lib -lpcre 
-L/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.3/lib -R/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.3/lib -ldb
../../lib/libglobal.a(mail_conf_int.o)(.text+0x228): In function 
`set_mail_conf_int':
: warning: sprintf() is often misused, please use snprintf()

I had thought all along that this was a GCC/GNU issue and nothing more.
It compiles fine and runs fine, albeit these messages.






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