[PD-dev] snprintf vs. sprintf_s?

[Miller Puckette]

Well, I am, for one... but I think it would be foolish to drop support for
the 'official' windows compiler.

OTOH, I like the idea of just supplying a spoofed config.h - comes in at
just the level of irony that's fitting in the situation.

cheers
Miller

On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 05:00:11PM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> On Jan 16, 2008, at 1:26 PM, zmoelnig at iem.at wrote:
> 
> > Quoting Russell Bryant <russell at russellbryant.net>:
> >
> >> Yeah, that sounds like a better check than the custom MSW define.
> >>
> >> If you wanted to take it a step further, it would be pretty  
> >> trivial to add a
> >> check for snprintf to the configure script.  That way, when building
> >>  Pd for .Net
> >>   or whatever (which I assume uses some other build system), the  
> >> appropriate
> >> HAVE_SNPRINTF define will not be present.
> >
> > the only problem with that i see is, that when building with .NET you
> > usually do not do configure (once you have installed all the
> > (gnu)tools to be able to run configure, you probably will want to use
> > gcc instead of the .NET compiler)
> 
> Who's using the MS compilers?  We would save ourselves a lot of  
> effort and make the code cleaner if we used gcc/autoconf on all  
> platforms.  According to Thomas Grill, gcc's code is comparable in  
> terms of optimization to MSVC.
> 
> .hc
> 
> > one solution (which i use and which i don't really like) to this is to
> > have a non-generated configMSW.h.
> >
> > btw, is there a way to specify at compile-time which file to include?
> > something like:
> >
> > #define CONFIG_H_FILE "config.h"
> >
> > #ifdef CONFIG_H_FILE
> > # include CONFIG_H_FILE
> > #endif
> >
> > (this won't work, but is there something similar?)
> >
> >
> > fgmasd.r
> > IOhannes
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