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From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@bec.de>
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Subject: Re: svn commit: r310138 - head/lib/libc/stdio
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On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 02:45:19PM -0800, John Baldwin wrote:
> In general I agree with something like this instead, but it is quite a bit more
> tedious to use as you have to run it once to determine the length, allocate a
> buffer, and then run it again.

Why do you need to determine the length? It's not like people write
novells in the kernel to describe bit fields. A reasonable sized stack
buffer covers pretty much all the interesting cases.

Joerg