"Secure coding" audit checkers and Kerberos 
    Ken Raeburn 
    raeburn at MIT.EDU
       
    Wed Oct 15 16:41:11 EDT 2008
    
    
  
On Oct 15, 2008, at 16:16, John Hascall wrote:
>  asprintf is a non-standard, and therefore
>  sub-optimally portable, GNU extension --
>  so you're still stuck writing something else
>  (perhaps your own asprintf implementation,
>  which is far more baggage than one needs
>  to concat a few strings).
We already have it, and we do use it for more than just string  
concatenation, but as long as it's there, we can use it for "collect  
these strings together and allocate whatever the right amount of space  
is" easily enough.
Ken
    
    
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