Re: [xml] Patches to 2.3.4

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 11:58:56AM -0600, xml thewrittenword com wrote:
> 1. On Solaris 2.5.1 and IRIX 6.2, snprintf is *not* available. So,
>    I copied in the snprintf.c from the Samba distribution and
>    added an autoconf test to compile and link it into libxml2.
>    If we do not link snprintf into libxml2, then *every* program
>    that links against libxml2 will need snprintf.c compiled into
>    it (like xmllint).

   Okay since I also got a report that 2.3.5 was simply crashing
because of those issues:
   http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52538

   I have tried to get rid for good of this string functions
portability and the security nightmare of using sprintf or vsprintf.

   Basically I will follow your approach i.e. embedd rimplementation
of the missing functions, except I will try to use the trio library
of string functions:
   http://sourceforge.net/projects/ctrio/

   Main argument for selecting those is that Bjorn Reese is one of the
coauthors and hence we have pretty good chance to get things fixed 
promptly in case of troubles.

   I have put an updated test distribution at:
     ftp://xmlsoft.org/test/libxml2-2.3.5.tar.gz

 and i would really like feedback on the portability of the resulting code.
This is a rather large change and I would prefer early feedback before 
making a full release with this,

    thanks in advance,

Daniel

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