Use libc's snprintf, not sprintf, for special cases in snprintf.c.
snprintf.c has always fallen back on libc's *printf implementation
when printing pointers (%p) and floats. When this code originated,
we were still supporting some platforms that lacked native snprintf,
so we used sprintf for that. That's not actually unsafe in our usage,
but nonetheless builds on macOS are starting to complain about sprintf
being unconditionally deprecated; and I wouldn't be surprised if other
platforms follow suit. There seems little reason to believe that any
platform supporting C99 wouldn't have standards-compliant snprintf,
so let's just use that instead to suppress such warnings.
Back-patch to v12, which is where we started to require C99. It's
also where we started to use our snprintf.c everywhere, so this
wouldn't be enough to suppress the warning in older branches anyway
--- that is, in older branches these aren't necessarily all our
usages of libc's sprintf. It is enough in v12+ because any
deprecation annotation attached to libc's sprintf won't apply to
pg_sprintf. (Whether all our usages of pg_sprintf are adequately
safe is not a matter I intend to address here, but perhaps it could
do with some review.)
Per report from Andres Freund and local testing.
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20221015211955.q4cwbsfkyk3c4ty3@awork3.anarazel.de
Branch
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REL_12_STABLE
Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/d33ac1ec2af5297b2ac8fbf89464f0c7f90a7955
Modified Files
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src/port/snprintf.c | 14 +++++++-------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)