12.69.23 vasprintf

Gnulib module: vasprintf or vasprintf-posix

Portability problems fixed by either Gnulib module vasprintf or vasprintf-posix:

• This function is missing on some platforms: AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 10, mingw, MSVC 9, Interix 3.5.

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module vasprintf-posix:

• This function does not support size specifiers as in C99 (hh, ll, j, t, z) on some platforms: Cygwin 1.5.24, BeOS.
• printf of ‘long double’ numbers is unsupported on some platforms: BeOS.
• printf "%f", "%e", "%g" of Infinity and NaN yields an incorrect result on some platforms: Solaris 11 2011-11.
• This function does not support the ‘a’ and ‘A’ directives on some platforms: glibc-2.3.6, Mac OS X 10.5, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 4.0, Solaris 11 2011-11, Cygwin 1.5.x, BeOS.
• This function does not support the ‘F’ directive on some platforms: NetBSD 3.0, Cygwin 1.5.x, BeOS.
• This function does not support the ‘ls’ directive on some platforms: OpenBSD 4.0, Cygwin 1.5.x, Haiku.
• This function does not support precisions in the ‘ls’ directive correctly on some platforms: Solaris 11 2011-11.
• This function does not support format directives that access arguments in an arbitrary order, such as "%2$s", on some platforms: NetBSD 3.0, BeOS.
• This function doesn’t support the ' flag on some platforms: NetBSD 3.0, Cygwin 1.5.24.
• printf "%010f" of NaN and Infinity yields an incorrect result (padded with zeroes) on some platforms: Mac OS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 5.0, Solaris 11 2011-11, Cygwin 1.5.x.
• This function does not support precisions larger than 512 or 1024 in integer, floating-point and pointer output on some platforms: BeOS.
• This function can crash in out-of-memory conditions on some platforms: Mac OS X 10.3, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 5.0.

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: