> Linux and Solaris 10 x86 pass regression tests fine when I force the use
> of new
> snprintf(). The problem should be win32 - specific. I will
> investigate it throughly
> tonight. Can someone experienced in win32 what can possibly be the
> problem?
Do we have any idea about what format string causes the regression failure?
It may be that certain integer types are not promoted uniformly when
pushed on the stack.
>
> Nick
>
> On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 19:07:16 +0100, Magnus Hagander <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
> wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> The new snpritnf code appears not to deal with 64-bit ints. I'm getting
>> failures on win32 for int8 as well as all the time related tests (win32
>> uses int8 for tinmestamps). Removing the snprintf code and falling back
>> to the OS code makes everything pass again.
>>
>> I would guess this affects int8 etc on other platforms as well (assuming
>> they use our snprintf and not the libc one), but I haven't checked it.
>>
>> //Magnus
>>
>>
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