[vlc-devel] [PATCH] vasprintf: stop HEAP exceptions

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le mardi 6 janvier 2009 03:00:47 ken, vous avez écrit :
> vsnprintf produces "0paaaa" and returns a length of 6
> vsprintf produces "0000AAAA" and returns a length of 8
> So if vsprintf writes to the memory allocated on the basis of vsnprintf
> it overflows by 2 characters

Well vsnprintf() is consistent with itself at least. Could it be that VLC is 
pulling vsprintf() and vsnprintf() from mismatching run-times, such as MSVCRT 
and a static mingw import library or something?

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Rémi Denis-Courmont
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