[olsr-dev] snprintf(), ...

[Bernd Petrovitsch]

On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 10:47 +0100, Thomas Lopatic wrote:
[...]
> [Bernd suggested to use snprintf() et al. instead of sprintf(), strcat(),
> ...]
> 
> On Win32 olsrd uses msvcrt.dll, which ships with Windows, as its C
> library. I've just checked and the version on my system (XP Service Pack
> 2) has snprintf(), strncpy(), and strncat(). However, I am not sure since
> which Windows version these functions exist inside msvcrt.dll. So maybe
> we'd break compatibility with earlier Windows versions by using them. But
> then again, there should BSD-licensed source code available somewhere for
> them, which we could include with olsrd for platforms that do not support
> them natively.

A license compatible to the olsrd license is enough since the simple
integration is "put the source into the tree and add a #define for it".
I have to take a closer look into the Makefile to see what's the
simplest solution.

	Bernd
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