Re: glib bug on windows?

[Hubert Sokołowski <h sokolowski wsisiz edu pl>]

On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 14:19:29 +0100
Hazael Maldonado Torres <gtk-development itxolutions com> wrote:

> > Hi!
> >
> > I have found a problem in windows version of glib 2.4.7. 
> > in code
> >  va_start (args, fmt);
> >  in = g_strdup_vprintf (fmt, args);
> >  va_end (args);
> > when fmt is for example "blablabla 100\%" the pointer 'in' is NULL,
> > when fmt is for example "blablabla %c",'%' the problem does not
> > occure.
> >
> > could this be a bug in g_strdup_vprintf or somewhere else?
> >
> > regards
> > hs
>
> As far as I can say, if you want the '%' character printed using any 
> *printf* function you should escape it using the '%' character rather 
> than '\'. Though glib should check for the return value from 
> g_strdup_vprintf() and propagate the error.
%% works fine, thanks. but it is strange that \% works on linux and on
windows it doesn't.