Re: GluaX fixes (minor)

[Gunnar Zötl <gz@...>]

AK> Also, I've acknowledged the mention of buffer overruns. As far as I know,
AK> such places only exist in the generation of error messages, but I'll
AK> eliminate even them in future releases.  The problem is, 'lua_pushfstring()'
AK> does not exist for Lua 4.0 so I need to use regular 'sprintf()'. Any ideas?

some time ago, I have written a length estimator for the printf
function. i.e. You pass in the format string and the arguments, and it
will return a number that is equal to or a bit larger than the length
of the formatted result string. I could try to dig it out, if you're
interested.

Gunnar
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