Re: [PATCH] perf: Incorrect use of snprintf results in SEGV

Peter Zijlstra
2012-03-07T20:59:44Z

On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 21:37 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> size_needed = snprintf_size(...);

This would require 3 passes over the fmt+args, first to find the
allocated size is insufficient, 2nd to compute the size, 3rd to fill
buffer.

Whereas with the current "creative" API only 2 passes are needed.

I can imagine that back in the day of small memory and small CPU this
was deemed important enough.

Anyway, its all moot, this API exists and has been out in the wild for
several decades now, its not like we can actually change it :-)