Re: [PATCHES] snprintf() argument reordering not working

Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> > That got me through the backend compile and through libpq to ecpg, which 
> > fell over at the link stage complaining about missing references to 
> > pg_sprintf and pg_snprintf ... not sure how to fix that - windows 
> > experts, please advise.
> 
> Plan A would be to make libpq export pg_snprintf and friends, Plan B
> would be to give ecpg its own copy of snprintf.o.  Plan A is probably
> better since you're going to hit the same issue no doubt in all of the
> src/bin programs.

I am confused why we would need either of these.  All apps use
libpgport, and that pg_*printf should be in that library.  The original
work Andrew did has problems particularly with ecpg, but why does ecpg
cause problems?  Doesn't it link in pgport?

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