Here's the situation: We received code from an outside source that uses sprintf like strcat. Like this: char buffer[1024]; sprintf(buffer, "Some text."); sprintf(buffer, "%s%s",...

I have written a C program which works perfectly on linux, but when I compile it on windows, it gives me an error saying that asprintf() is undefined. It should be a part of the stdio library but i...

Is the GNU function asprintf (print to allocated string) thread-safe? (IIC, basically, this boils down to the question whether malloc is thread-safe.) Consider the example code: #define _GNU_SOU...

I'm trying to build python-kerberos on AIX. kerberospw.c uses a call to asprintf, but from what Google is telling me, asprintf does not exist on AIX. I saw http://www.koders.com/c/fidAA9B130D58830...

I'm having a hard time understanding why you would need asprintf. Here in the manual it says The functions asprintf() and vasprintf() are analogs of sprintf(3) and vsprintf(3), except that the...