/* Like sprintf but provides a pointer to malloc'd storage, which must be freed by the caller. Copyright (C) 1997-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Contributed by Cygnus Solutions. This file is part of the libiberty library. Libiberty is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Libiberty is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Library General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License along with libiberty; see the file COPYING.LIB. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street - Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */ #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H #include "config.h" #endif #include "ansidecl.h" #include "libiberty.h" #include /* @deftypefn Extension int asprintf (char **@var{resptr}, const char *@var{format}, ...) Like @code{sprintf}, but instead of passing a pointer to a buffer, you pass a pointer to a pointer. This function will compute the size of the buffer needed, allocate memory with @code{malloc}, and store a pointer to the allocated memory in @code{*@var{resptr}}. The value returned is the same as @code{sprintf} would return. If memory could not be allocated, minus one is returned and @code{NULL} is stored in @code{*@var{resptr}}. @end deftypefn */ int asprintf (char **buf, const char *fmt, ...) { int status; va_list ap; va_start (ap, fmt); status = vasprintf (buf, fmt, ap); va_end (ap); return status; }