Re: Building git-1.5.3.7 on HP-UX 11.00

["H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:20:55 +0100, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
wrote:

> Junio C Hamano schrieb:
> > "H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl> writes:
> >> 3 I am willing to believe that HP_UX' vsnprintf () is broken, or
> >>   at least does not conform to the expectations in the GNU world,
> >>   but chickening out like the way strbuf_addf () does is maybe a
> >>   bit too rude, so I forced a minimum of 64bytes available. That
> >>   fixes a lot!
> >>
> >>   but it still breaks t4013 :(
> > 
> > I think Shawn had something similar for Solaris, and if it is a small
> > cost to help portability, it does not feel so bad.
> 
> Windows's vsnprintf() is broken in two regards: (1) It returns -1 if the
> buffer is too small; (2) the size parameter is not the size of the buffer,
> but the max. number of chars to write (i.e. does not count the NUL). How
> broken is HP-UX's?

Do you have a simple test program to show how `broken' it is?
I have 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23/PA and 11.23/IPF and both
HP C-ANSI-C and gcc

> Maybe we can share the implementation? See:
> 
> http://repo.or.cz/w/git/mingw.git?a=commitdiff;h=5fd41ffacdef5454acbe51f5e23a97eb5158226d
> http://repo.or.cz/w/git/mingw.git?a=commitdiff;h=e88aa8cbe816526bb0a7d37eaf2f5eb40ff36ae1

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