Re: [PATCH] vsprintf.c cleanups

[Brian Gerst]

Horst von Brand wrote:
> Brian Gerst <bgerst@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
>
> > - Make sprintf call vsnprintf directly
> > - use INT_MAX for sprintf and vsprintf
>
>
> This is the size limit on what is written. 4GiB sounds a bit extreme...

Sprintf has no limit, which is why it's generally bad to use it.  I just 
replaced an open coded ((~0U)>>1) value with the equivalent INT_MAX.

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				Brian Gerst
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