Re: g_strdup_strftime

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Darin Adler <darin@eazel.com> writes:

> I'd like to see a function named g_strdup_strftime added to <glib.h>. With
> glibc, it's trivial to implement:
> 
>     gchar *
>     g_strdup_strftime (const gchar *format, const struct tm *time)
>       {
>         size_t size;
>         gchar *result;
> 
>         size = strftime (NULL, UINT_MAX, format, time);
>         result = g_malloc (size + 1);
>         strftime (result, size + 1, format, time);
>         return result;
>       }
> 
> But it might be trickier to do with non-Gnu versions of strftime.
> 
> What do you all think?

Sounds like a good addition to me.

I think what you'd have to do is allocate an initial size buffer
that was most likely large enough (say 256 chararacters) - that
could be automatic on the stack, and then if necessary, increase
the size of that buffer until strftime succeeded.

Regards,
                                        Owen