Silly sprintf question

Mr. Moxie · Post by **Mr. Moxie** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 4:13 pm

I'd like to know if I should be using _sprintf or sprintf in my code? I want my current game to cross platform, but I don't know if Mac or Linux uses the secure versions of sprintf or stricmp. Haven't bought my Mac for development yet.

CuteAlien · Post by **CuteAlien** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 5:08 pm

I don't think _sprintf exists on other platforms, this looks like a MS specific extension (and man - do I hate all the warnings they added for the old versions as lots of libs out there don't use pragmas to disable them and so compiling with VS can produce hundreds of warnings these days!).

The safest way to work (and which is platform independent) is anyway to use c++ streams instead of sprintf, but I admit that I also still often use the printf stuff.

Mr. Moxie · Post by **Mr. Moxie** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 6:01 pm

Thanx,

That's what I thought, I'm just going to disable the various warnings with: _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE since I have too many sprintf(s) in my existing code, and debug libs.

hybrid · Post by **hybrid** » Tue Jul 15, 2008 8:47 pm

You should never use sprintf, but the snprintf is pretty safe. Furthermore, Irrlicht replaces the snprintf by _snprint or s_sprintf depending on the MSVC version you use.