Re: "In defense of printf"
On 12/19/2014 11:35 AM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
On 12/19/2014 8:31 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> writes:
On 12/16/2014 11:29 AM, Paavo Helde wrote:
Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> wrote in news:m6nsm9$ss5$1@dont-email.me:
"In defense of printf"
I have tried to cut my printf usage to very basic functions that get
called a lot so they are fairly well tested. Printf usege in an error
message is a bad idea, IMHO.
In general, I also like the printf style better than C++ streams.
Almost
all my error messages are formatted printf-style. However, I am using a
typesafe implementation in C++ (similar to Boost.Format) to avoid
all the
drawbacks of printf(). This way it is even slower than with streams
as lots
of run-time checks and conversions are involved. So in general it is
good
*only* for formatting error messages ;-)
Cheers
Paavo
Error messages are usually a critical piece of our code that are not
tested very well. So, for error messages I have built a typesafe class
around sprintf and just use standard strings for building the error
message. Not the prettiest code (and is verbose also) but gets the
message across.
Surely you're using snprintf, not sprintf? sprintf should never
be used.
Sounds like a good idea. But, no.
std::string asString (int val)
{
char buffer [100];
#ifdef _MSC_VER
sprintf_s (buffer, sizeof (buffer), "%d", val);
#else
sprintf (buffer, "%d", val);
#endif
return buffer;
}
If you're going there and you're taking the buffer size for the
non-standard sprintf_s, then why even bother with the #ifdef?
std::string asString(int val)
{
char buffer[100];
snprintf(buffer, sizeof(buffer), "%d", val);
return buffer;
}
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