Re: [HACKERS] SPARC, SunOS 5.5.1, gcc 2.7.2.1 - can't compile...

David Hartwig <daveh@insightdist.com>

From: David Hartwig <daveh@insightdist.com>
To: Vadim Mikheev <vadim@krs.ru>
Cc: hackers@postgreSQL.org, scrappy@hub.org
Date: 1998-09-04T13:30:02Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Vadim Mikheev wrote:

> src/backend/port/snprintf.c:
>
> snprintf.c:84: structure has no member named `_flags'
> snprintf.c:84: `__SWR' undeclared (first use this function)
> snprintf.c:84: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> snprintf.c:84: for each function it appears in.)
> snprintf.c:84: `__SSTR' undeclared (first use this function)
> snprintf.c:85: structure has no member named `_bf'
> snprintf.c:85: structure has no member named `_p'
> snprintf.c:86: structure has no member named `_bf'
> snprintf.c:86: structure has no member named `_w'
> snprintf.c:89: structure has no member named `_p'
>                ^^^^^^^^^
> This is about FILE structure...
> BSD code was used for snprintf.c, but
> FILE in BSD is not the same as in SunOS 5.5.1...

I have the same problem on my AIX box.    , Linux includes snprint as in the
stdio library.

I would prefer to drop snprintf altogether, and replace it with sprintf and a
sufficient buffer.   The places where snprintf is used are logically bound to
string lengths less than 64 bytes.   Otherwise, snprintf becomes another
porting issue.    I have no idea how to ( or wheather I can) implement this
using vprintf.    The flags and data structures are very different.