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Re: Displaying a number with Quartz
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Re: Displaying a number with Quartz


  • Subject: Re: Displaying a number with Quartz
  • From: Pierre Berloquin <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 18:13:26 +0200

Finally, thanks to Alexander, my pure Objective C solution is
NSString *S = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:@"%i", i];
const char *text = [S UTF8String];

and no warning this time except that I should learn more about C

Thanks
Pierre

2009/5/26 Sean McBride <email@hidden>

> On 5/26/09 5:12 PM, Alexander Spohr said:
>
> >> Never ever use sprintf for anything.
> >
> >If you use "%d" and know it will be an int? You know how many chars
> >you'll have at max, no buffer-overflow possible. (You might argue
> >here, that at some time we will habe 128-bit ints, but hey you should
> >recode your app then anyway or just have a buffer large enough to
> >handle that right at the start)
> >
> >And yes - you are right, use snprintf instead... int might become 256
> >bit.
>
> You can use sprintf safely if you're very careful, I suppose, but using
> snprintf is not harder and so much safer.  sprintf is just not worth the
> risk.
>
> --
> ____________________________________________________________
> Sean McBride, B. Eng                 email@hidden
> Rogue Research                        www.rogue-research.com
> Mac Software Developer              Montréal, Québec, Canada
>
>
>


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